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How to use comedic in a sentence

21 example sentences · adjective

Comedic means relating to comedy. Example: “Back-formations, such as tambour (for “play the tambourine”), are a staple of comedic wordplay.”

Examples of comedic by meaning

adjectiveRelating to comedy.

  • It was done for comedic purposes

More sentences with comedic

  • Back-formations, such as tambour (for “play the tambourine”), are a staple of comedic wordplay.From the entry back-formation
  • The Nutty Professor franchise explores the light comedic potential of a mad scientist.From the entry mad scientist
  • Dr Strangelove explores the darker comedic potential of a mad scientist.From the entry mad scientist
  • If Guthrie's talking blues are comedic powerhouses, the same can surely be said of his singing blues.2019, Will Kaufman, Mapping Woody Guthrie, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry talking blues
  • Gideon Defoe scripted from his own series-launching comedic book The Pirates!2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :”, in The Onion AV Club. From the entry hapless
  • All of Peter Schickele's music, both straight and comedic are integrated side by side in this chapter.2004, Tammy Ravas, Peter Schickele: A Bio-bibliography, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN. From the entry straight
  • In the usual comedic parlance, “anticomedy” is a self-aware performance that mines laughs from its utter lack of conventional punch lines.2019, Ken Jennings, chapter 8, in Planet Funny: How Comedy Ruined Everything, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 186. From the entry anticomedy
  • Or a comedic history, serene, Don-Quixotic, naive, larger than life.2018, Matei Calinescu, “Epilogue: Zacharias Lichter and His Biographer”, in Adriana Calinescu, Breon Mitchell, transl., The Life and…. From the entry Don-Quixotic
  • The ideal ending needs to be satisfying and surprising while staying true to the comedic game that preceded it.2016 July 12, Jessica Goldstein, “How to best end a comedy sketch? It’s hard to go wrong with gruesome death”, in The Washington Post. From the entry button
  • “Most people know me as a comedic actress, and that’s a part of me,” she said while being reshampooed.2008 April 13, Jesse Green, “Broadway’s Cookie, Un-Sugarcoated”, in New York Times. From the entry reshampoo
  • He drew blood samples at regular intervals while watching Laurel and Hardy and other comedic movies and had the samples analyzed.2005 October 1, Charmaine Liebertz, “A Healthy Laugh”, in John Rennie, editor, Scientific American, New York, N.Y.: Springer Nature…. From the entry gelotology
  • As a result, the catalogue was dominated by the usual comedic corn and the martial parpings of Arthur Pryor's band.2004, Louis Barfe, Where have all the good times gone?. From the entry parping
  • Allan Blye, a CBC-TV mainstay in the early Sixties, worked as a singer, writer and straight and comedic actor.1988, Ed Gould, Entertaining Canadians: Canada's international stars, 1900-1988, Cappis Pr Pub Ltd, →ISBN. From the entry straight
  • Xiang Sheng is a comedic form with three major types, involving one, two, or three or more usually male performers.1988, Francesca Ferguson, Dualistic Relationships in Northern Chinese Narrative Arts, Seattle, Wash.: University of Washington, →OCLC…. From the entry Tianjinese
  • Yet these cues are often used in comedic fashion outside of the contexts with which those sounds would have been associated in the original games.2023, Karen M. Cook, “Xandir P. Whifflebottom, Video Game … Hero?”, in Lisa Scoggin, Dana Plank, editors, The Intersection of Animation…. From the entry Zelda-like
  • Editors work together with writers to splice together lines in what are known as "Frankenbites" to help create storylines with more comedic or dramatic impact.2015, Peter B. Orlik, Media Criticism in a Digital Age, →ISBN. From the entry frankenbite
  • Although Bardolators may imagine he is an infallible guide to psychology, Shakespeare either did not understand the heritability of personality traits, or chose to ignore it for comedic purposes.2013, Robert R. McCrae, James F. Gaines, Marie A. Wellington, “The Five-Factor Model in Fact and Fiction”, in Irving B. Weiner, Howard A.…. From the entry bardolator
  • Just when you're ready to dismiss the main character, Theodorous Melville, as simply another hopelessly vanillafied brother, debut writer and director Kwyn Bader ups the comedic ante.2007, Esther Iverem, We Gotta Have It: Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies, 1986-2006, Thunder's Mouth Press, →ISBN, page 243. From the entry vanillafied
  • A generous helping of Goldie from The Mack, a little Willie Dynamite, and a sprinkle of Dolemite for comedic flavoring add up to a recipe for playerhood.2007, Kenji Jasper, Ytasha Womack, Beats, Rhymes, and Life: What We Love and Hate about Hip-hop. From the entry playerhood
  • Ali G was a glorious, comedic butterfly, but it's my sad duty to report that his exquisitely papilionaceous character is currently being broken upon a wheel.2000 April 3, Evening Standard. From the entry papilionaceous

Meaning of comedic

  1. adjective Relating to comedy.

Full definition of comedic

Questions about comedic in a sentence

How do you use comedic in a sentence?
Comedic is used as an adjective. For example: “Back-formations, such as tambour (for “play the tambourine”), are a staple of comedic wordplay.”
What is a short sentence with comedic?
“It was done for comedic purposes”
What does comedic mean?
Comedic means relating to comedy.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: comedic (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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