farce

Example Sentences

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Redactions, supposedly to protect victims, are so sweeping as to make a farce of the exercise.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

That aside, the film’s barrage of scenes, sketches, shout-outs and absurdist scenarios leading up to the climactic wine-making championship are largely harmless flights of farce.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

"To sentence my 69-year-old father under the pretext that his actions lowered the 'likelihood' of my return to stand trial is not justice; it is a judicial farce," she said.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

The hint of farce continued when both Carey and Cameron Green almost ended up at the same end, only for both to survive the run-out chance.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026

We presented The Blockade of Boston, Major-General Burgoyne’s farce upon rebel hypocrisy, as one of the most celebrated events of our hivernal concert series.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson