How to Use grotesque in a Sentence

grotesque

1 of 2 noun

• Floyd’s killing was grotesque, and the latest in a series.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 4 June 2020
• As activists are jailed, maimed and killed around the world, this is grotesque.
  — Darkskylady, refinery29.com, 13 Sep. 2021
• The basic components of the tone of my films are the tragicomedy and a dash of the grotesque.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 25 Aug. 2021
• When the public learned of LaLaurie’s grotesque secret, a mob stormed the house, prompting her to flee to France.
  — Gulnaz Khan, National Geographic, 31 Oct. 2020
• The grotesques are a delightful feature in a building that’s bristling with them.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 23 June 2018
• Indulging in the grotesque is what has given these films their prescience.
  — Blair McClendon, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2020
• Martin believes the Gothic revival of the 1920s likely inspired the young Ayres to add the grotesques.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 28 Mar. 2020
• In Shostakovich’s earthier sonata, the somberness competes with the grotesque.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2021
• All of us laughed, picturing me glowering at them like a stone grotesque on the Notre Dame.
  — Vanessa Hua, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2021
• More than a few of the objects verge on grotesque and maybe ugly and will push at the limits of your taste, which is always healthy.
  — New York Times, 13 June 2021
• Its grotesque and should not be allowed to be shown on mainstream platforms.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 3 Mar. 2022
• And around this grotesque and horrible mask of death, the hair, the beautiful hair, still blazed like sunlight and flowed in a stream of gold.
  — Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
• The antics range from childlike—the boys don panda suits for a romp through Tokyo—to grotesque and life-threatening.
  — Travis Bean, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022
• Since then, the images, which range from unsettling to grotesque, have gone viral.
  — Nina Raemont, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2022
• On the one hand, there is the man in the office: grotesque, incoherent, malicious, dumb.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 4 Aug. 2020
• If Washington and others do more to help, that grotesque goal can also be stymied.
  — Joshua Muravchik, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2022
• Many of them, like Medusa, have the face of a woman but other grotesque, unnatural body parts.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2021
• Unironic emotion is weak at best, grotesque at worst, and always to be hidden.
  — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 8 July 2022
• Lynch put a horror button on it, adding one of his unnerving still-life grotesques.
  — Jeff Jensen, PEOPLE.com, 22 May 2017
• The image shows a fish with its mouth being held open, showing a grotesque parasite.
  — Michael Hollan, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2021
• But both Stan and Cleopatra are met with horrific fates, exposing the grotesque at the core of their being.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 19 Mar. 2022
• Mapplethorpe was determined to find beauty in even the grotesque and macabre.
  — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
• Deb, in a hospital gown, is attached to it, but a grotesque, dark presence pulls her back under.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 8 Nov. 2021
• Rigorous 2½-hour tour includes a close-up look at many gargoyles and grotesques.
  — Washington Post, 16 June 2017
• On both of their faces, there is an expression of pleasure that borders on the grotesque — from the woman’s hand dangles a smartphone.
  — Brienne Walsh, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
• Their hands hold a head whose translucent resin face, rendered in the manner of a Renaissance grotesque mask, will emit a Gatorade-green glow, thanks to a light inside.
  — WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
• The tableaux in some pictures are stagier than in others; a few push, uncomfortably, toward the grotesque.
  — New York Times, 29 July 2021
• To be sure, the grotesque killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis did not involve a serious crime.
  — Vincent Carroll, The Denver Post, 13 June 2020
• In a new version of the classic film noir, Guillermo del Toro’s florid art of the grotesque ends up emptying out the story rather than expanding it.
  — The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2022
• Fittingly, for someone now famous as a writer of the grotesque, Sorokin was introduced to the group by his dentist.
  — Jennifer Wilson, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022

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grotesque

2 of 2 adjective

• The actors wore dark capes and grotesque masks.
• The grotesque and the absurd demand their place in the halls of power, too.
  — Phil Klay, Time, 17 Aug. 2023
• The Fly, all of which found grotesque things happening to the human form.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 4 June 2022
• The greatest neo-noir ever made, and one of the most complex and grotesque.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2022
• Much like her fashion choices, Fox bounces through the glamour and the grotesque all the same.
  — Daniel Rodgers, Glamour, 2 Jan. 2024
• Everyone in the world that Roger elects to become a part of is grotesque.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2022
• One of the great joys of my job is the opportunity to be grotesque and change.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2022
• The way he’d been treated, by both strangers and intimates, was grotesque.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 May 2023
• These actions are too dark and grotesque and the country deeply rejects them.
  — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2024
• This is a grotesque one and posing with guns has nothing to do with self-defense.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
• But there’s humanity in revealing the grotesque, in telling the truth about the world.
  — Grace Edquist, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2023
• But Diablo IV’s take on the genre feels more brutal and grotesque.
  — Alessandro Fillari, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2022
• The movie culminates in a truly bizarre and grotesque final act that will leave you stunned.
  — Men's Health, 21 Oct. 2022
• The friction of opposites — the grotesque and the beloved — is the soul of DiRusso’s sound and hinges on her willingness to say the quiet parts out loud.
  — Sarah Grant, SPIN, 8 Mar. 2023
• The comedy is grotesque and blunt — Craig spends one episode with a dead snake nailed to his palm — but sneakily smart.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2022
• They were made into the shape of gnarly, knobby, sometimes grotesque … fingers.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
• As a lifelong Catholic, I am disturbed by some of the grotesque imagery created by the Sisters.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
• Analysis: Amid world crises, ‘grotesque greed’ wins out.
  — Kendra Nichols, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2022
• Leave aside for a moment her grotesque false equivalence.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• Trump is just the ultimate and most grotesque expression of something that’s been going on for a while.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2022
• And the third is, essentially, a sitcom, featuring the grotesque Chin-Kee.
  — Jamie Fisher, New York Times, 24 May 2023
• On a dirt path behind it was an even more grotesque scene: two victims, their bodies bloating.
  — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
• The scene was a grotesque spectacle unlike anything that Crestone had seen.
  — Christopher Moyer, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2021
• Yonezu: In the comic, demons are constantly hurting people in grotesque ways.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 16 Nov. 2022
• Column: Nikki Haley’s grotesque, and wrong, attempt to link trans youth to suicide among teen girls.
  — USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
• Thus the grotesque chaos of Twitter users acting as if one person’s good day is a personal attack against them.
  — WIRED, 1 Dec. 2022
• The High Evolutionary’s base is a grotesque body-horror looking mess.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 24 Nov. 2022
• The jokes Asher scripts for himself become, in performance, tortured and grotesque rather than just flat.
  — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• While Jason is yet to don the iconic hockey mask, his unmasked and grotesque face proves all the more abject and sinister without it.
  — Nathan Smith, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2022
• But Misery was prescient, a tale of fan obsession taken to its most grotesque extreme.
  — Chris Vognar, Chron, 3 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024