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• He is known for his spicy political commentary.From the entry spicy
• Satire is often employed in social commentary.From the entry social commentary
• Nineteen Eighty-Four is the best known of Orwell's social commentaries.From the entry social commentary
• Even natively fictive characters can be used as a commentary on real-life politicians such as Donald Trump.2023, Tobias Kunz, Lukas R.A. Wilde, Transmedia Character Studies, page 211. From the entry natively
• My only contribution to radblr is occasional snide commentary, and they're not even particularly funny.2020 October 27, normieenvy (@normieenvy), Twitter. From the entry radblr
• I'm sure the body-horror aspect is fairly obvious now, but the commentary perhaps not.2019 June 3, “Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-3003 - The End of History” (18:44 from the start), in The Exploring Series, archived from…. From the entry squicky
• The melodramatic moment elicits a characteristic Eliotian commentary on the complexity of human will.2016, A Companion to George Eliot, page 98. From the entry Eliotian
• It is very rare that an entire commentary is recorded in one take.2012, Colin Hart, Television Program Making, page 196. From the entry rock and roll
• Sometimes a linklog will run alongside fuller journal entries or other commentary.2007, Vivien Morgan, Practising Videojournalism, page 149. From the entry linklog
• The other type of music is called “heartical” and refers to songs which carry social commentary.2003, Dick Hebdige, Cut `n' Mix: Culture, Identity and Caribbean Music, →ISBN, page 40. From the entry heartical
• Attorneys are finding fans (and some fame) by posting legal commentary on the Internet.2003, ABA Journal, March 2003, page 2 (table of contents). From the entry blawger
• Is it acceptable to share “good letters” but never share letters with neutral or unglowing commentary?2002, Patricia Keith-Spiegel, The ethics of teaching: a casebook, page 108. From the entry unglowing
• The commentary in the MSTs may have been nasty and uncalled for; but it was not plagiarism.1999 March 10, Teddi Litman, “Re: THE ACID DESK: Vol 1, No 9 - Plagarism^([sic]) Proof”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet). From the entry MST
• He raised some very soul searching and gut wrenching questions in his commentary.1999, House of Commons Debates, page 15893. From the entry soul searching
• Molly's myriorama fuses these elements— spectacle and drama, commentary and song— in her complex, revolving mental kaleidescope.1994, Richard Pearce, Molly Blooms: A Polylogue on "Penelope" and Cultural Studies, page 126. From the entry myriorama
• Zand or 'Interpretation' is a term for the exegesis of Avestan texts through glosses, commentaries and translations.1984, Mary Boyce, Textual Sources for the Study of Zoroastrianism, Manchester: UP, page 3. From the entry Zend
• Observations were made using a running commentary, which consisted mainly of a list of coded behaviour items.1974, Nicholas Blurton Jones, Ethological studies of child behaviour, page 250. From the entry running commentary
• Perhaps this enucleation of Aristotle's theory is enough, without further commentary.1957, Gerald Frank Else, Aristotle's Poetics: The Argument, page 162. From the entry enucleation
• The plucked instrument's harplike sound accompanies the jali's song—praise for patrons, histories and genealogies, satire, political commentary, and poetic recitation.2015, J. Kenneth Moore, Jayson Kerr Dobney, E Bradley Strachen-Scherer, Musical Instruments: Highlights of The Metropolitan Museum of Art…. From the entry kora
• It’s a pretty simple format to grasp: somebody plays a game and then offers commentary about the action happening onscreen.2015 April, Heidi Kemps, “Let’s Playing Together”, in PC PowerPlay, number 238, page 33. From the entry Let's Player
• Tokuda went over everything his grandfather had taught him, including the commentary that had barnacled on to the core knowledge.2009, Liza Dalby, Hidden Buddhas: A Novel of Karma and Chaos, Stone Bridge Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 178. From the entry barnacle
• Extras include a commentary track with Mr.2009 July 26, Dave Kehr, “A Woman Repulsed, a Man Convulsed”, in New York Times. From the entry laserdisc
• “You’ll have half the participants BlackBerrying each other as a submeeting, with a running commentary on the primary meeting,” Mr.2009 June 22, Alex Williams, “Mind Your BlackBerry or Mind Your Manners”, in New York Times. From the entry submeeting
• Not quite censorship, but not exactly unfettered commentary, either.2008 July 7, Noam Cohen, “Poof! You’re Unpublished.”, in The New York Times. From the entry disemvowelment
• The Farkers who submit the stories also provide witty commentary.2007, PC Mag (volume 26, numbers 21-22, page 89). From the entry Farker
• The Xinhua commentary said that Chen "blows hot and cold, behaves capriciously and is a hard man to trust."2002 May 12, “China says DPP is only welcome if it changes platform”, in Taipei Times, retrieved 09 Jul 2008. From the entry blow hot and cold
• It contains no inherent commentary on its stipulations, and no intrinsic propositions concerning whether its effects are sensical or not.1998, William Storm, “Tragedy, Tragic, Vision”, in After Dionysus: A Theory of the Tragic, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, →ISBN…. From the entry sensical
• Rockrgrl contains lots of news, features, business suggestions, reviews, and commentary on what’s current for women in rock.1997, Feminist Bookstore News, volume 20, page 58. From the entry 'zine
• Creatures who navigate long-distance migrations — including the green turtles, wind birds, or great cranes — draw his most rapt commentaries.1996, James Richard Giles, Wanda H. Giles, American Novelists Since World War II: Fifth Series, page 139. From the entry rapt
• The latest commentary I've gotten on first-time dadhood came from a friend after he heard the news from his wife.1992, Yevrah Ornstein, From the Hearts of Men, page 283. From the entry dadhood
• A commentary on how the media and the culture have distorted and minoritized the lives of people with AIDS.1991 May 4, Michael Bronski, “One Man's 'Poison'”, in Gay Community News, page 16. From the entry minoritize
• When I spotted two small warm-brown scaley-plumaged ‘peeps’ with yellow legs, my commentary immediately identified them as Least Sandpipers.1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 91. From the entry peep
• Betti has dealt with the XXIX Canto of Paradiso in a commentary marked by an extreme richness of spiritual syntonies.1969, Carlo Luigi Golino, editor, Italian Quarterly, volume 13, page 27. From the entry syntony
• Chinese state media has pressed pause on the US-bashing, releasing a raft of commentaries extolling the merits of resetting relations and working on co-operation.2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC. From the entry press pause
• One of the earliest surviving papers from Tunhuang that exhibits this dyeing is a 26-feet long roll providing a commentary on the Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra.2021 June 5, Martin Paul Eve, “When and why did paper become white and why was white paper so valued?”, in Martin Paul Eve, archived from…. From the entry Tunhuang
• When not inaccurate, much commentary on the contents of Hobson-Jobson is couched in hedges or relies on speculative estimates in the absence of exact information.2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography…. From the entry couch
• The following analysis will allow future critical commentary, both academic and popular, to move away from speculation, guestimation, hedging, generalisation, and erroneous statements.2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography…. From the entry guesstimation

Meaning of commentary

1. noun A series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work.
2. noun A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum.
3. noun An oral relation of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs.

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How do you use commentary in a sentence?

Commentary is used as a noun. For example: “We listened to the football commentary while watching the match.”

What is a short sentence with commentary?

“Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War”

What does commentary mean?

Commentary means a series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work.