Example sentences for: travesty

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

  • 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.

  • The conventional wisdom is correct: The Sopranos deserved to win pretty much every award, and the fact that it got only two is a travesty, to the degree that Emmy injustice can be a travesty.

  • Dianne Feinstein had to be termed 'ludicrous' and 'a travesty' in a federal court, instead of a state one."

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

  • "It is a travesty in the King legacy.


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