clowning

How to use clowning in a sentence

I wasn’t a class clown, because I was like, “This is going to get me in trouble.”

My mom was obsessed with clowns and decorated our apartment full of them when I was growing up.

The clown had been silent for years, Benson swears, but when Christopher arrived in June, the clown perked up and found its wheezy laugh again.

The crowded theatre was wholly relieved, itself again, in a succeeding passage of trivial clowning.

CYTHEREAJOSEPH HERGESHEIMER

The bears themselves perform their parts most decorously, without any horseplay or clowning.

This was a bit of his clowning humor, a purely manufactured and as it were mechanical joke or ebullience of soul.

TWELVE MENTHEODORE DREISER

The tall, peaked hat was a great aid to the clown in my early days of clowning.

To be a successful clown you had also to be a good pantomimist, because all clowning is really based on the pantomime.

Clowning reached a golden age which passed away, never to return again.

With all these aids, some men work for years at clowning, and never become clowns.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985