Example sentences for: travesty

How can you use “travesty” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The rooster crows cock-a-doodle-doo , which for anyone who has spent time on a farm is a sad travesty of the deep, throaty ur-ur-ur-ur-urrh!

  • Although Dr. Orne insisted that Sexton had given him permission to do what he thought appropriate with the tapes, his colleagues howled that he had made a travesty of doctor-patient confidentiality, Sexton's wishes be damned.

  • "It is a travesty in the King legacy.

  • What made it a travesty, indeed a tragedy, is that thousands upon thousands of Yiddish speakers, many of them elderly and poor, remained uncounted, and thus have fallen “between the cracks,” so to speak, with grave political, social, and economic consequences.

  • And now that you mention it, you're quite right: It is a travesty.


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