clown

Example Sentences

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The food fight that explodes in the play’s third movement is conducted with comestibles so rubbery they might be part of a clown show.

From Los Angeles Times

“Strangers clowned us,” former Ambassadors player Victoria Henson told me the other day.

From The Wall Street Journal

I remember it was a kind of collage, full of cutout pictures of circus life, with clowns and acrobats and jugglers and horses, and elephants, of course, lots of elephants.

From Literature

They hadn’t gone far when Wolf began to run up and clown the bank, mewing.

From Literature

War is not for clowns and fake tough guys.

From Salon