Sentence for grotesque | Use grotesque in a sentence

Grotesque example sentences. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use grotesque in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for grotesque.

• The whole scene was too grotesque and afflicting. (10)
• The dusky throng performs all manner of grotesque movements. (18)
• Their movements were grotesque and horrible, their forms gigantic. (1)
• His grotesque sincerity was little short of the shedding of tears. (10)
• She began to have a vague idea that he was indulging grotesque fancies. (10)
• No such grotesque old monster as Dr. Shrapnel had he seen in the course of his travels. (10)
• What grotesque juggling amongst shadows, what strange and ghastly eccentricity was all this? (8)
• It comes of unrefined abstract fancy, grotesque or grim, or gross, like the peculiar humours of their little earthmen. (10)
• Humourist and Satirist frequently hunt together as Ironeists in pursuit of the grotesque, to the exclusion of the Comic. (10)
• He was on the march to execution, and into the darkness of his brain danced John Raikes, with his grotesque tribulations. (10)
• Cecilia did not join this discussion, though she had heard from her father that something grotesque had been written of Nevil. (10)
• One of the most grotesque and least comfortable of my experiences with the magicians of the air occurred near the forks of the Platte. (7)
• He perceived that faith in the soul and life everlasting was as quick as ever in the hills, whatever grotesque or unwonted form it wore. (9)
• He remembered it as the emblem of low-down show business, and associated it with end-men and blackened faces and grotesque shirt- collars. (9)
• The comportment and performances of men in society are to him, by the vivid comparison with their mortality, more grotesque than respectable. (10)
• The music for the parade, played as it is in a very lively tempo, causes all manner of grotesque movements among the listeners on the streets. (21)
• Caseldy acquiesced; his wits were clouded, and an illustration even coarser and more grotesque would have won a serious nod and a sigh from him. (10)
• Westover could only feel a painful interest tinged with amusement in his grotesque misconceptions of the world where he had not yet begun to right himself. (9)

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Definition of grotesque:

• grotesque, gr-tesk’, adj. extravagantly formed: ludicrous. | n. (_art_) extravagant ornament, containing animals, plants, &c. not really existing. | adv. grotesque’ly. | ns. grotesque’ness; grotesqu’ery. (0)

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