How to Use farce in a Sentence

farce

noun

• For most of the book, the farce felt too far from Earth for Zink to land it.
  — Lynn Steger Strong, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2022
• In the right hands, the gap between tragedy and farce can be razor-thin.
  — The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2023
• The farce of it all is that Thomas really did not need Crow to pay for the tuition.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 4 May 2023
• And any notion that the pandemic’s end will mark the end of smushing is a farce.
  — Zak Jason, Wired, 12 Feb. 2022
• The genre and the farce approach, the satire, are probably the only ways to face someone like Pinochet.
  — Vulture, 21 Sep. 2023
• The play does move between farce and caretaking and rage.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2022
• In farce timing is everything, from the right look of anguish to the rhythm of the slamming doors.
  — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2022
• The farce will arrive in the inevitable attempts to turn this all into, yes, a movie.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2023
• The brisk plot smoothly stays on point while Holmes adds bits of farce, quirky characters and a style and sense of place that evoke the 1950s.
  — Sun Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2023
• In this ongoing farce, even the straight men are funny.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2023
• What is deeply unfunny about the whole thing is that Democrats could end this farce at any time and have not yet done so.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
• The scripts were clever, and written for adults, but then the writers could also pull off ebullient farce.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Oct. 2022
• Cotta has a face fit for farce, with puzzled, wide eyes that Abrantes takes great pleasure in pulling the wool over.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024
• The notion of quantum crypto-agility is, in essence, a farce.
  — Kevin Bocek, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• Young as the pageant contestant gets to gnaw most of the scenery, and in the context of this farce some gnawing is permitted.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2022
• In his videos, Mr. de Hek treats all of these and other twists in the Hyper plot with a light touch, one befitting a farce.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2022
• For Sheehan, though, the farce is the deception itself.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• The entire affair was a farce, a joke for Flynt’s amusement.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Jan. 2023
• These cacophonous tones remind us that the real world, too, can be a ghastly farce.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2022
• The neo-screwball farce follows a group of friends who become involved in the murder of a senator in the 1930s.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 8 Oct. 2022
• What’s the challenge of writing a farce like this and capturing that dynamic on the page?
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
• Lakewood Theatre kicks off the new year with a quick-witted farce by C.S. Whitcomb.
  — oregonlive, 4 Jan. 2023
• The fourth episode turns on a dinnertime farce about six people, most of whom have slept together, some of whom are the same whom.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 May 2022
• The Bubble, switching things up however, is a full-on farce.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 12 Apr. 2022
• Hong gives a fine enough performance, but lacks the tricky gift for farce that would have made her performance more comedic.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Oct. 2022
• The old Karl Marx line is that history repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 17 Mar. 2023
• For most of the last century, elections in Mexico were a farce.
  — Kate Linthicumstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2022
• Perhaps a bit of bedroom farce around men wearing a woman’s trousers?
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2022
• The farce works because, as Everett’s work has often shown, race itself is something of a farce.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2024
• Douthat Why audiences turned out for this leaden farce.
  — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 22 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024