How to Use schtick in a Sentence

schtick

noun
  • Some celebrities aren’t big fans of Daniels’ schtick, though.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Part of Farage’s schtick is to latch onto football.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The shirt-off schtick fueled his fame and became a trademark of his.
    Rodney Ho, AJC.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Critics may have grown tired of the schtick here, but audiences have not.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • With the right dance, dog or schtick, anyone has a shot at going viral these days.
    Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2023
  • And this is Dennis’ entire schtick.
    Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
  • In theory, senators should be equipped to push back on his schtick.
    Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The rain made for a somber occasion that is long part of the Widows’ schtick.
    al, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Other people think his walk-and-talk schtick got old one Newsroom ago.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Dalio’s schtick is to analyze past patterns and use them to try and make sense of the future.
    Alan Murray, Fortune, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Kucinich’s political schtick may also be old-hat at this point.
    cleveland, 5 May 2021
  • But what takes his work to a different level is that behind the schtick is all sorts of substance.
    Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • And of course Groucho wore one here and there, spoofing it in his rich, lightning-fast schtick as well.
    Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Priscilla commits to her whole go-big-or-go-home schtick and chooses Ashley.
    Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2021
  • His schtick is similar to Portnoy.
    Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 25 June 2026
  • But the best parts of Until Dawn are merely blips in a film whose entire schtick gets stale fast.
    Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 24 Apr. 2025
  • To some, this may play as a surgery nightmare, but Paul promises the woman is fully in on the schtick.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The whole anti-Valentine’s Day schtick might sound overplayed.
    Jenna Ryu, SELF, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Unlike Goober, though, Tammy dropped her schtick quickly and spoke more frankly about the stakes.
    Amanda Wicks, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2022
  • But the wizard's whole schtick is that everyone can be worthy of such power if given the chance.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 July 2022
  • Here's a moment of Matheson and Brooks doing some schtick in the movie.
    EW.com, 5 May 2025
  • The boom and the whack and doink, and the turducken and six-legged turkeys, that was kind of a schtick created by a smart guy.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The baby doll voice, the dumb blonde schtick, create a requisite layer of fiction.
    Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
  • Quiet as it’s kept, some fans were seemingly beginning to tire of Rhodes’ awe-shucks schtick.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • During his first year or two in Anaheim, Mizuhara talked softly and didn’t carry a big schtick.
    Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
  • But Lee’s schtick is not just a poor reflection on himself but also on his religion.
    Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
  • All the pieces work fine — its gray and noisy world is fully realized and each character has a clearly defining schtick.
    Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2020
  • And Mitchell is perfectly cast in a role seemingly built to suit his usual fussy, pedantic schtick.
    Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Every chair approaches that part of the program in their own way; some have done schtick, others have been more straightforward.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 9 Jan. 2026
  • But even Trump seemed to recognize that his usual schtick was not what Kirk might have wanted in the moment.
    David M. Drucker, Twin Cities, 23 Sep. 2025

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