Example sentences for: vaudevillian

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

  • As an old vaudevillian might say, "I've got a million of 'em"---Well, maybe not that many, but it is, I think, time to move on.

  • Gore came across as a kind of manic political vaudevillian.

  • In his raucous, vaudevillian allegory Dogma , Kevin Smith concocts a scenario in which the will of God comes apocalyptically into conflict with Catholic doctrine.

  • Reviewers note that the essays, like the book, are long (97 pages about a cruise-ship voyage, 54 on the Illinois State Fair) and playful ("He trounces words; he pivots on commas; he drops in and out of styles like a vaudevillian who lets the audience watch him change costumes right there on stage," says the Los Angeles Times ' Susan Salter Reynolds).

  • His virtuoso portrayal of Andy Kaufman in the forthcoming Man on the Moon proves that Carrey is more than just a "turbocharged vaudevillian."


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