farce in English

noun
1
a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.
On stage he has played character roles in farces , pantomime, comedies and serious drama.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "farce" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "farce", or refer to the context using the word "farce" in the English Dictionary.

1. Who perpetrated this farce?

2. The trial was a complete farce.

3. The trial was a mere farce.

4. I prefer farce to tragedy.

5. He denounced the election as a farce.

6. 8 I prefer farce to tragedy.

7. The prisoner's trial was a farce.

8. The plot often borders on farce.

9. The theatrical farce touches a nerve.

10. How could he go through with this horrible farce?

11. Our school dramas tend towards comedy and farce.

12. End this farce once and for all!

13. The solemn event rapidly degenerated into farce.

14. Farce likes to tinker with such taboos.

15. It can make war seem like tragedy or farce.

16. Published: (1776) The Blockheads, or, The Affrighted officers a farce

17. Crumey has his fun, but plots his farce elegantly.

18. The elections have been reduced to a farce.

19. But this could quite easily turn into farce or pretension.

20. The story has elements of tragedy and farce.

21. The play suddenly changes from farce to tragedy.

22. 13 We decided to carry on with this farce.

23. The play was a cross between a farce and a tragedy.

24. What's happening in the Judiciary Committee is a farce.

25. 15 Crumey has his fun,(www.Sentencedict.com) but plots his farce elegantly.

26. a farce when the vicar fell flat on his face.

27. Fill the spring chicken with the farce. Roll it carefully.

28. Overemphasis, hamming it up, leads to the exaggerations of satire, cartooning, melodrama and farce.

29. The trials were a mere farce since no judges were present at all.

30. They need to be stopped because this is a cruel farce.

31. This is an absolute farce and this is a point of order.

32. 9 The judiciary is a farce: 80 % of prisoners are awaiting trial.

33. More literary games, but here intellectual conceits are mixed with bawdy farce.

34. It seemed to be a farce and it made us doubled up with laugher.

35. But the remake, ranging from farce to a touch of sentiment, isn't at all bad.

36. The debate degenerated into farce when opposing speakers started shouting at each other.

37. Skillfully using Bathos, he emptied the story of any heroic dimensions and converted it into farce

38. No one had prepared anything so the meeting was a bit of a farce.

39. Skillfully using bathos, he emptied the story of any heroic dimensions and converted it into farce.

40. The blockheads, or, The Affrighted officers a farce / by: Warren, Mercy Otis, 1728-1814

41. Frasier is a work of art, a beautifully crafted mix of class and farce.

42. Many are forced to double or triple parts, as if in a Brian Rix farce.

43. 24 Thrusting themselves into the spirit of the farce, they ham it up like mad.

44. 16 Skillfully using bathos, he emptied the story of any heroic dimensions and converted it into farce.

45. 26 Although most of them were being paid so little that employment had become a farce, an irrelevance.

46. But the incidents and the relationships developed along the way give it a wily balance of farce and sentiment.

47. It would be fair to say France Football’s condescension has turned the award into the Ballon de Farce

48. It was like a Whitehall farce the way I was sent from department to department and everyone said it was someone < ...

49. Appearances Belie reality and as the madness gains momentum, hilarity ensues in this classic comic farce of mistaken identities

50. 28 Duran dominated Leonard physically that night, but five months later the New Orleans farce put a huge stain on his reputation.