How to Use melodrama in a Sentence

melodrama

noun

• The trial turned into a melodrama.
• Critics dismissed his work as melodrama.
• She is starring in another melodrama.
• The melodrama, in fact, is so high, the film teeters on the brink of satire.
  — cleveland, 23 Nov. 2021
• Huge town that loves its melodrama and is king and queen of the Big Event.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 10 Feb. 2022
• Even Lawrence, the steadiest of the lot, gets caught up in the melodrama.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
• The film in question was a sci-fi thriller but the case played out in court like a melodrama.
  — Brian Melley, ajc, 28 Apr. 2023
• The body of the series is a bantery young-adult soap, the head a woman-on-the-edge thriller, and the tail a race melodrama.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
• Even if a lot of the contestants turned up the melodrama to a hundred.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2023
• Critics of The Swan often rolled their eyes at the melodrama.
  — Jensen Davis, The New Republic, 7 May 2021
• For many people, this will all sound like a lot of melodrama.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2021
• The show set in motion a new kind of high school melodrama, one shot through with a down and dirty spirit.
  — Lauren Mechling, Town & Country, 4 Oct. 2020
• The moon’s clash with Neptune amps up the cosmic melodrama.
  — USA TODAY, 15 July 2023
• She gets sucked into the hellscape that is the Kevin Pearson-Olivia Maine melodrama!
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 4 Jan. 2022
• Yes, Titanic is a soapy melodrama, which didn’t used to be a crime.
  — Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 13 Dec. 2022
• So then, why do so many fans around here — and elsewhere — get pulled into the melodrama?
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Mar. 2022
• There are the makings here of a melodrama like the ones that Earl and the narrator enjoy watching.
  — Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
• There is, of course, nothing wrong with choosing high-stakes melodrama as a form.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 26 June 2022
• Scree tell it the way the best history books do: rich in tradition with a flair for melodrama and plenty of time to take in the scenery.
  — Pitchfork, 14 Dec. 2023
• Peretti first performed the fake melodrama in 2017 as a reading at UCB, which was recorded for an episode of the podcast.
  — Vulture, 2 Nov. 2023
• With its initial set-up, Audrey’s Back could have been an illness-of-the-week style melodrama.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Apr. 2022
• Amid the over-the-top melodrama, Carax crafts some amazing scenes and, later in the film, moving flourishes.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2021
• Erring on the side of melodrama and period-piece reckoning, the film’s visual style adds to that sense.
  — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 8 Aug. 2024
• But Squid Game was a blunt instrument, a melodrama weaponized for memes and bloodlust.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2021
• Both shows are towers of cotton candy teased by a breeze of cheap melodrama.
  — Tom Gliatto, People.com, 12 Oct. 2024
• But unlike Rukeyser’s erotic melodrama, no one on Too Hot to Handle is allowed to do the deed.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 25 June 2021
• In the 2000s, My Chemical Romance charged emo with the melodrama of theater nerds and became some of the biggest rock stars on the planet.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2022
• Mary Weiss, the singer who channeled the melodrama of adolescence as the lead vocalist of the quintessential girl group the Shangri-Las, has died at the age of 75.
  — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2024
• Modigliani’s death, then, is still a couple of years away, but a constant, hacking cough spells out his doom in the manner of classic melodrama.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 Sep. 2024
• My personal fave is one nobody else likes, My Reputation, a soapy melodrama from 1946.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024