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How to use sitcom in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun

Sitcom means syllabic abbreviation of situation comedy. Example: “Just another channel that offers the usual fare of makeover programs and reruns of old sitcoms.”

More sentences with sitcom

  • Just another channel that offers the usual fare of makeover programs and reruns of old sitcoms.From the entry fare
  • The writers are dishing up more of the same with this bland suburban sitcom.From the entry dish up
  • He watched a little of the sitcom, but the nuttiness was off-putting, so he decided to read a book instead.From the entry nuttiness
  • "Frasier" was a spin-off from the sitcom "Cheers".From the entry spin-off
  • Three-camera sitcoms create a familiar, theatrical feel like classic shows such as Seinfeld, Friends, and The Big Bang Theory.From the entry three-camera sitcom
  • The contradictions of recent sitcoms can be traced to the contradictions of TV paedocracy.2012, Doyle Greene, Teens, TV and Tunes: The Manufacturing of American Adolescent Culture. From the entry paedocracy
  • He has a happy home life, two sitcoms on the go and a new book in the offing.2019 November 3, Andrew Anthony, “David Mitchell: ‘I have no reason to have these apocalyptic musings’”, in The Observer, →ISSN. From the entry in the offing
  • In Armando Iannucci’s sitcom The Thick of It, government spin doctor Malcolm Tucker brokers a peace with his opposition counterpart.2018 July 16, Kate Maltby, Ava Etemadzadeh, “Harassment is parliament’s dirty cross-party secret. Is it about to change?”, in The Guardian. From the entry broker
  • The medium is dominated by nakige, the crying genre, much like how superheroes dominate comics and sitcoms television.2011 November 10, Alex Mui, “Visual Novels: Unrecognized Narrative Art”, in The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, Johns Hopkins University, page B5. From the entry nakige
  • Played by TV sitcom stalwart Kevin James (The King of Queens), the title character is an over-officious, under-achieving chubster.2009 March 19, “Film Review - Paul Blart : Mall Cop”, in Herald Sun. From the entry chubster
  • Finally, the perennial laugh-tracks of sitcoms and comedy shows let us know when something funny has been said or has happened.2002, Carla Meskill, Teaching and Learning in Real Time, →ISBN. From the entry laugh-track
  • For four years, the actor and comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy entertained TV audiences in Ukraine with his starring role in the sitcom Servant of the People.2021 October 3, “Revealed: ‘anti-oligarch’ Ukrainian president’s offshore connections”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 13…. From the entry Zelenskiy
  • They called me the "magic" kid, and my mother named me Darrin, after the husband of the witch on the sixties TV sitcom Bewitched.2006, Darrin Owens, Reader of Hearts, New World Library, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry Darrin
  • As for AMC, I don't think you can put a 5-day a week soap in the same class as a sitcom or sitdram.2001 May 8, Aisling Willow Grey, “AMC: When do you think it jumped the shark?”, in rec.arts.tv.soaps.abc (Usenet), retrieved 07 Jun 2022. From the entry sitdram
  • I like comedy, and occasionally watch a little stand up on Comedy Central, but I've never liked the sitcom format, or sitdram, or whatever.2000 March 6, Magog, “sorta off topic”, in alt.startrek.borg (Usenet), retrieved 07 Jun 2022. From the entry sitdram
  • As is the trend, this is a single camera series, shot more like a movie, rather than your traditional ”filmed before a live studio audience” three camera sitcom.2012 September 11, Read, Min, “TV First Impression: “The New Normal””, in Pop Dose. From the entry three-camera sitcom
  • “Yallo,” his boss drawled and Seth could picture the man kicked back in his recliner, beer in hand, watching a repeat of some golden oldie sitcom on TV.2011, Mari Carr, Jayne Rylon, Southern Comfort, page 52. From the entry yallo
  • Originally a model herself, she made her acting debut as an aspiring catwalker (with Michael Learned and Leah Remini, hugging, and Alison Elliott, right) in an '89 sitcom.2003, Editors of People Magazine, People: 100 Greatest TV Stars of Our Time, →ISBN, page 58. From the entry catwalker
  • That or demonic possession: Surely age alone is insufficient to explain Rick(y) Schroder’s transformation from hypersaccharine sitcom munchkin to tough-talking adult of no more than average munchkinliness.1998 December 14, “Hey Rick, You’re So Fine, You Blow My Mind, Hey Rick”, in New York. From the entry hypersaccharine
  • Remember I have been asleep inside this planet of Magrathea for five million years and know little of these early sixties sitcoms of which you speak.1989, Douglas Adams, The More than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide: Complete & Unabridged, Wings Books, page 109. From the entry pandimensional

Meaning of sitcom

  1. noun Syllabic abbreviation of situation comedy.

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Questions about sitcom in a sentence

How do you use sitcom in a sentence?
Sitcom is used as a noun. For example: “Just another channel that offers the usual fare of makeover programs and reruns of old sitcoms.”
What is a short sentence with sitcom?
“"Frasier" was a spin-off from the sitcom "Cheers".”
What does sitcom mean?
Sitcom means syllabic abbreviation of situation comedy.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sitcom (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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