How to Use clown in a Sentence

clown

1 of 2 noun

• Who's the clown standing in the middle of the road?
• Those big shoes make you look like a clown!
• And clearly, these two clowns shouldn't be in charge of ...
  — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 19 Mar. 2024
• There was a crazy man dressed in a clown outfit at the door to my home.
  — Sharon Edelson, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• Each then picks a skill to pursue along with a clown name.
  — Penny E Schwartz, Orange County Register, 24 Mar. 2024
• Moore:Are the Phoenix Suns class clowns or star students?
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 3 Apr. 2023
• The harder question, these days, is what lines the clown may cross.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• But why, in 2023, has the clown become the biggest muse in fashion?
  — Kristen Bateman, ELLE, 28 Mar. 2023
• Here's why the brutal' clown slasher movie is so hard to watch.
  — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2022
• These people are clowns, jesters, fools in the medieval sense.
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• But a clown who makes no one laugh is not a clown, or else is stuck in a Beckett play.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• The circus has to make money to keep its clowns clowning.
  — Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 21 July 2023
• In the eyes of the world, DeVito is a clown, just short of having a Bozo nose.
  — Trish Deitch, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
• This winter season has been up and down like a clown on a pogo stick.
  — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2023
• That brought me inevitably to the Ron DeSantis clown show.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
• There is more clown in him than most people have had a chance to discern.
  — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• Did the final product look more like a Pez dispenser with five feet and a clown face?
  — Vulture, 9 Feb. 2023
• But dig a little deeper and the word becomes a clown car of meanings.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• How can the same guy embody both a stoic hero and this bumbling clown?
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2023
• The Joker barb is, no doubt, a reference to being called a clown act.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 31 Oct. 2022
• As the audience laughed, the clown was already moving on.
  — Alex Marshall, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• The whole thing has become a clown show unworthy of a great nation.
  — WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
• The mood was brightened by the production’s droll Autolycus, one of the Bard’s great con men and clowns.
  — Donna Rifkind, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2023
• Philpott provides lessons, a wardrobe, food and transportation to his clowns.
  — Wesley Lapointe, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• But as babies, bats are all about their giant clown feet.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2023
• There were a fair number of clowns (without their makeup) as well.
  — Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• Elon Musk may have driven his own clown car into his own gold mine.
  — Carl Miller, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2022
• These chunky black-and-white seabirds with endearing sad clown faces are known and loved worldwide.
  — Cheryl Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
• Bow starred in the 1927 movie It (nothing to do with clowns) about a shopgirl who goes after a wealthy older man.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 6 Feb. 2024
• Outside of a Stephen King novel, why should clowns inspire fear?
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2023

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clown

2 of 2 verb

• As a kid that meant mugging in home movies and clowning around in class.
  — Dan Greene, SI.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• That didn’t stop fans from clowning Bosa after the 49ers loss.
  — cleveland, 3 Feb. 2020
• Jennifer Lawrence just clowned you all on day one, nerds.
  — Tom Philip, GQ, 3 Nov. 2017
• The circus has to make money to keep its clowns clowning.
  — Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 21 July 2023
• The image staring back at her doesn’t clown her or give her props on a life well-done.
  — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
• What’s more, the photos are clown-themed — rainbow wigs, red noses, makeup, etc.
  — Abigail Van Buren, Twin Cities, 1 Apr. 2017
• The motorcycles revved, the lions roared, the clowns clowned, and the good circus escaped from the wrath of the bad circus, or something like that.
  — Atul Gawande, vanityfair.com, 27 Feb. 2017
• Was beef mouth trying to clown these kids for loving a rock group beneath his awareness?
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 4 June 2023
• The Monarch saw Steph Curry’s clowned-on shoes and quietly nodded from across the barbecue.
  — Sam Schube, GQ, 30 Aug. 2017
• But looks like the joke’s on everyone that clowned around, because the new camera systems have made way for a bunch of useful features.
  — Gabe Bergado, Teen Vogue, 18 Sep. 2019
• Wearing a black polka-dot dress with a signature red lip, Gomez posed for selfies with eager fans and clowned around with some of the youngest in the venue’s photobooth.
  — Melania Hidalgo, PEOPLE.com, 25 June 2018
• Playing versions of themselves and more or less just clowning around, the pair manages to be straight-faced and tremendously silly at once.
  — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• Seems as if the airlines are still clowning and being targeted with lawsuits because of the clownery.
  — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 14 May 2018
• Going back to at least ancient Rome, clowning figures were jesters and pranksters who teased the populace and spoke impolite truths.
  — Chicago Tribune Editorial Board, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• The costuming, with the players in circusy outfits and the chorus members wearing their own clothes, looks haphazard, and the carnival clowning on stage gets in the way of the plot.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Sep. 2019
• However, not everyone who lives near the location is thrilled with the Joker fans clowning around.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• Neither should the fact that the White House already has clowned Cotton on this clumsy lie with an even clumsier explanation.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 16 Jan. 2018
• But Groucho was also an accomplished crowd-worker, and this was the bulk of the show, as Ferrante-as-Groucho clowned with audience members.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• Bill Skarsgård wasn’t clowning around in his preparations to play Pennywise.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 10 Dec. 2019
• Now, that's skewed a little from clowning Vancouver 11-on-9 last weekend, and nobody else has played more matches than Sporting.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 24 Apr. 2018
• Friends have clowned on Hernandez because of the cut, blowing up their phone with Edgar memes, some of them unkind, some of them hilarious, and some of them interesting.
  — Myriam Gurba, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• Digital assistants egg on every other appliance in the house to clown around.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
• Anyway, the person eventually said that everyone was right to clown on their original tweet.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 4 Nov. 2022
• Marcus is bubbly, outgoing, full of energy, huge smile on his face, dancing, laughing, clowning other guys and me.
  — Joe Juliano, Philly.com, 24 Oct. 2017
• Denning is too busy clowning to channel the combination of wry self-knowledge and insecurity in Benedick.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 July 2017
• The informal posture of the two, acting like clowning chums despite differences over Britain’s expected fall departure from the EU, may be the new normal in the often-tense world of diplomacy.
  — Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2019
• There’s one acceptable outcome to their season, and reality-check losses like this one help them get closer to that a lot more than starting 8-0 by clowning clueless teams like Washington, the Jets, and the Browns.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2019
• They were considered a bunch of frontrunners who couldn’t deal with prosperity and finally clowned around too much with a worthy opponent.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2023
• When Malenkov asks whatever became of a former colleague, a pall draws over the room, until Beria and Khrushchev begin clowning around to distract Stalin from his potentially lethal rage.
  — Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2018
• Meanwhile on Instagram, people were getting their popcorn ready and literally clowning Trump and others.
  — Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue, 25 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024