How to Use minstrel in a Sentence

minstrel

noun

• Edna St. Vincent Millay was unofficially the minstrel of Maine, as her poetry celebrates its coast and countryside.
• There was a good 70, 80 years of that with the minstrel shows.
  — Ron Hart, Billboard, 29 Mar. 2018
• Who knows why these yahoos did a minstrel show in 1960?
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 5 Oct. 2019
• Wade believes the minstrel in these new texts was more of a local performer.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 31 May 2023
• There is the truly alarming sight of Mr. Glover’s body, and the minstrel twitch that sends his limbs spasming and causes his eyes to pop.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 11 May 2018
• Depending on the tale, the flutist was a minstrel, shaman, trader or trickster.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2020
• Jason Whitlock has a brand-new minstrel show on Fox Sports.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 8 Sep. 2017
• After the deed is done, the queen agrees to marry the murderous brother, but on the eve of the wedding, a minstrel finds a piece of the dead brother’s bone in the forest.
  — Georgia Rowe, The Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2017
• Piety becomes psychedelia in an image of a once well-meaning minstrel whose mind has been newly turned on and tuned in.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• Fifty crafters, a luncheon, a huge bake sale, take-a-chance table and strolling minstrels will be part of the festivities.
  — courant.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• My eyes are wide, the type of wide that white people would imitate during minstrel shows.
  — Brooklyn White, Teen Vogue, 11 Mar. 2018
• Most are records of payments made to minstrels, listed by their first names and instruments played.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 June 2023
• But what is the difference between their portrayal and that of the actors in minstrel shows?
  — Brianna Holt, Quartzy, 1 Nov. 2019
• While Guardian speculates the title is a reference to minstrel shows, the outlet also points to a 1985 Prince song with the same name.
  — Zoe Haylock, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2018
• The Man), takes its name from a legendary character of Colombian folklore who is an archetype of the traveling minstrel.
  — Judy Cantor-Navas, Billboard, 14 Nov. 2017
• Singing for your supper is a romantic notion with roots in the medieval minstrels of Europe.
  — Hector Saldana, ExpressNews.com, 13 June 2019
• Posters of 20th-century blackface performers and minstrel shows line the walls.
  — Savannah Eadens, The Courier-Journal, 29 Aug. 2019
• The 130-year-old brand features a Black woman who was originally dressed as a minstrel character.
  — NBC News, 18 June 2020
• Blackface dates to nearly 200 years, when white performers darkened their faces with polish to mock enslaved Africans in minstrel shows.
  — Faith Karimi and Doug Criss, CNN, 20 Sep. 2019
• In the Middle Ages, minstrels often traveled from taverns and fairs to entertain people.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 31 May 2023
• Social media posts decried the dark skin tone, many likening it to the blackface minstrels of the 19th century that promoted racial stereotypes.
  — Colleen Barry, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
• The 130-year-old brand features a Black woman named Aunt Jemima, who was originally dressed as a minstrel character.
  — NBC News, 17 June 2020
• Richard left home to join a minstrel show run by a man known as Sugarloaf Sam, occasionally appearing in drag.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2020
• Batiste is not a reprobate minstrel like late-night regular Lil Nas X; yet the weakness of both is held in equivalent esteem by the cultural mainstream.
  — Armond White, National Review, 6 Apr. 2022
• One of the best has to do with his henpeckedshoe-salesman father, who briefly frees himself from his wife’s suffocating influence by taking the part of Mr. Bones in a minstrel show.
  — Stephen King, New York Times, 9 May 2017
• The book, by Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff, chronicles the minstrel and ragtime traditions in vaudeville theatre that was major public venue for blues in its early years.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 15 Mar. 2023
• The opera’s plot centers on the tension between carnal love and spiritual purity, with Tannhäuser, a minstrel, caught between the two realms.
  — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Feb. 2023
• Circuses, tent revivals, minstrel shows, magicians and more could credit Hatch Show Print for helping pack venues.
  — Jon Waterhouse, CNN, 7 June 2017
• Among the departures from Twain’s text is a subplot involving Jim performing in a minstrel troupe and donning blackface alongside the white actors.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2024
• Hurt drew inspiration from disparate sources, including ragtime and music from minstrel and medicine shows.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024