- present tense form of caricature (3rd person singular).
caricatures
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Caricatures are a shorthand for the physical traits that make stars distinctive: Angela Lansbury’s immense Tweety Bird eyes, for example, or Bernadette Peters’s Cupid’s bow mouth.
From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2021
Caricatures of Darwin as a monkey appeared almost as soon as the Descent of Man was published.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
Caricatures filled prints and illustrated books, poetry took wild turns, and comic fiction flourished.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2018
Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Caricatures are not forbidden by the Catholic church.
From The Guardian • Jun. 30, 2015
Such Caricatures and Book Illustrations as have seemed specially desirable—of which the copyrights have lapsed and no editions are at the present day in print—have been engraved for this work by Mr. William Cheshire.
From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Everitt, Graham
