Example sentences for: vaudeville

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

  • ' (But then, there was the old vaudeville (minstrel?)

  • Sometimes, for fun, I open it just as she is about to strike again and she goes flying across the kitchen floor like a vaudeville comedian in a skit, crashing into the opposite wall.

  • Many of these antics were borrowed from vaudeville comedy, where a man dressing up as a woman didn't necessarily imply homosexuality (although the same questions arise in retrospect).

  • Nearby St. Lawrence Hall, once host to the freaks and darlings of Victorian vaudeville, has been beautifully restored to its original pink and green to provide a second home for the National Ballet.

  • He worked his way up in vaudeville, perfecting a distinctive style of dance in which he stiffened his legs and stuck out his butt, and he was playing a sniveling bootlegger on Broadway when Warner recruited him to Hollywood in 1930.


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