How to Use caricature in a Sentence

caricature

1 of 2 noun

• An artist was doing caricatures in the park.
• His performance in the film was a caricature of a hard-boiled detective.
• The interview made her into a caricature of a struggling artist.
• Each of the boxes and packets had a caricature of a white cat on the front.
  — oregonlive, 31 Mar. 2023
• Stars had private booths at the likes of Chasen’s and the Brown Derby, where an artist drew caricatures of the famous that hung on the walls.
  — Linda Deutsch, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2023
• The racial caricature on the cover of that book of mugshots goes some way toward explaining all of the above.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2022
• One way to think about this image is to ask whether it’s meant to be a caricature of the original.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
• At the play’s start, all this could pass for a caricature of an 8-year-old, but the performance doesn’t develop over the course of the show.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2023
• And every crowd has their caricatures and kind of gets kind of represented by the kind of the goofiness of that.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 20 July 2023
• The booth has a range of items depicting Black caricatures.
  — Rory Linnane, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2023
• Take part in the fun like a two-mile ride (or walk), a seven-mile ride, rock climbing wall, face painting and caricatures.
  — John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2023
• But Palmer embeds her caricature with awareness of how it will be used.
  — New York Times, 22 July 2022
• The actors, too, refrain from caricature to the right degree.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 23 Mar. 2023
• Not one character in the film is a caricature, and that was important.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 15 June 2022
• DeSousa gets her first chance to play the more human side of a broad caricature, and she more than capitalizes on it.
  — Joshua Alston, Variety, 20 Dec. 2022
• A lot of what was in the popular consciousness was Richard as a caricature, this comic foil.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• The Merchant of Death caricature supplants the need for real engagement with the real evils of the trade in illicit weapons.
  — Matt Potter, Time, 9 Dec. 2022
• One that’s just enough of a caricature to work its way into the public imagination and become the avatar of a movement.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 14 June 2023
• There's a very fine line between playing an archetype and playing a caricature.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• Music will be supplied by a DJ and there will be yard games, food trucks on Lafayette Avenue and caricatures of pets will be available, the release said.
  — Staff Report, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2023
• Rushdie would not allow himself to be reduced to the caricature that his enemies wanted to make of him.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2022
• Most of what came out of Hollywood and on television was kind of a caricature of what life is really like.
  — Stuart Miller, Orange County Register, 14 Feb. 2024
• The magazine was a part of a Black culture renaissance in the 70s, where Black women rose to prominence past the former decades of mammy and maid caricatures.
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 19 Aug. 2023
• There will also be a free caricature drawing and magic show.
  — Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 3 Feb. 2023
• The key to getting beyond caricature of Africans lies within the novel itself, but it is never grasped by the author, much less used to any effect.
  — Howard W. French, The New York Review of Books, 29 Nov. 2022
• This culture is the exact opposite of the caricature of private equity in the 80s.
  — Peter Georgescu, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• These pictographs, like the smiley-face caricature, are self-portraits too.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
• The normally strong actress Jasna Žalica, the helmer’s wife, never gets the chance to rise above caricature here.
  — Alissa Simon, Variety, 19 Aug. 2022
• Another draw of the fair was artist Greg Steele providing free caricature drawings for the public.
  — Giles Bruce, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2022
• The rest of her Twitter thread is a caricature of the modern political divide.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 25 Feb. 2023

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caricature

2 of 2 verb

• The press caricatured him as clumsy and forgetful.
• Some fun moments, but aside from the two leads, the movie given to caricature and some on-the-nose dialogue.
  — Philly.com, 29 Oct. 2017
• But Biden is not the across-the-board liberal hawk that he is sometimes caricatured as.
  — Noah Millman, TheWeek, 3 Mar. 2020
• You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree.
  — Fox News, 10 July 2018
• You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate, rather than hung from a tree.
  — Fox News, 27 Sep. 2018
• You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured, by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree.
  — Fox News, 17 Sep. 2018
• Moreover, what do the businessmen caricatured in the film think?
  — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• The human body, dissected and caricatured, is the basis of Yashnyk’s work.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
• Over the phone, Filliozat rejected the idea that she was driven by greed and accused Goldman of caricaturing her work.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
• There’ll be festival fun including games, stilt walkers and caricature artists, plus food trucks and pop-up bars throughout the park.
  — Norma Cavazos, Dallas News, 28 June 2023
• Horowitz’s FS1 is not, like Fox News, a channel on which non–right-wing perspectives exist solely to be caricatured and then blown up with a cannon.
  — Ben Mathis-Lilley, Slate Magazine, 26 Mar. 2017
• That gave Democrats an opening to caricature them as pawns of the president and a party establishment that was using them.
  — NBC news, 6 Jan. 2021
• Biden made the race into a referendum on Trump, and the president tried to caricature Biden as a corrupt, past-his-prime politician who was too weak to hold off the far left wing of his party.
  — Jordan Fabian, Bloomberg.com, 7 Nov. 2020
• Dead for more than 400 years, reduced to caricature as a thug and a brute in the famous Holbein portrait that hangs in the Frick Museum, Cromwell here feels shimmeringly alive, full of pathos.
  — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
• In the West, Mr. Kim, 34, has often been caricatured as a chubby child toying with nuclear missiles.
  — New York Times, 6 June 2018
• Democrats’ efforts to caricature Mr. Trump as anti-Hispanic have had some success and the president has helped fuel the charge.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2020
• But the differences in character, caricatured or not, show up in other measures as well.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2019
• Pelosi, who has served in Congress for more than three decades, has long been caricatured as a San Francisco limousine liberal with extreme views.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2020
• While the rest of the country may caricature California as a bastion of out-of-touch liberals, the Central Valley defies that stereotype.
  — Melanie Mason, latimes.com, 4 June 2019
• The occasion of the league's 100th anniversary marks as good a time as any to consider—and reconsider—a man too often caricatured as the NFL's cartoon villain.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• Too often, trust and safety teams get caricatured as partisan scolds and censors.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2023
• Netflix Each story has the feeling of a yarn that was based in some reality but has grown and shifted and become more acutely caricatured as people retold it.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 15 Oct. 2018
• William McFeely recognizes the complexity of the man Henry Adams reduced to caricature.
  — WSJ, 13 Oct. 2017
• Ted Kennedy has often been caricatured as a boorish drunk, but Clarke gives him an emotional depth that Kennedy’s detractors too often discount.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 30 Apr. 2018
• With no facts to support this assertion, Kenyon resorts to caricature.
  — Olivia Gentile, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
• MacPhisto was Bono’s way of caricaturing himself, a full-of-himself rock star embodying his own cartoon image.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2018
• Parscale has assumed the role of Trump’s troll-in-chief, backing his boss’s boasts and false claims; generating ads playing to voters’ fears; twisting the knife on the president’s opponents; and caricaturing Democrats’ policies.
  — Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 11 Sep. 2019
• The industry, in anonymous ads, attacked Traini on the radio and online (including on adn.com), caricaturing him with a huge stomach.
  — Author: Charles Wohlforth | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2018
• Welfare reform is also likely to be caricatured, even if it is well designed, as a way for Republicans to take money from the poor right after the party cut corporate-tax rates.
  — Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 25 Jan. 2018
• Images of neck-rolling, finger-snapping, gum-popping black women caricatured in movies and TV shows showed me exactly what people expected from me.
  — Maya Rupert, The Atlantic, 29 May 2017

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