How to Use travesty in a Sentence

travesty

noun

• It is a travesty and a tragedy that so many people would be denied the right to vote.
• The trial was a travesty of justice.
• The fact the record was snubbed from the 2021 Grammys is a travesty.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 15 Dec. 2020
• Right there out in the open, not even trying to hide the travesty.
  — Sterling Holywhitemountain, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
• Then came the travesty that was the 2020 draft lottery.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 18 May 2021
• The fact that no one voted for Brad Stevens as coach of the year is a travesty.
  — Frankie Prijatel, NOLA.com, 11 May 2018
• The Saints were graded with the fourth-worst food in the league, which is a travesty in New Orleans . . .
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2023
• Some of us are terrified by the thought of such a travesty.
  — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2018
• This remains one of the biggest travesties in all of sports.
  — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• Ah, but therein lies the beauty — or for some people, the travesty — of the third wild-card team.
  — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Aug. 2022
• What has happened to UA since about 2015 is a travesty.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2020
• Ross likened the construction to the Berlin Wall, calling it a travesty.
  — Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2023
• That, during times of such travesty, the world can still move in the right direction.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2020
• And that, sir, is a travesty for which you must be held accountable.
  — Breanna Bell, Variety, 9 June 2023
• All these issues are putting fireflies at risk, and to lose them would be a travesty, the experts said.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2022
• But the firearms used to carry out these deadly travesties?
  — German Lopez, Vox, 5 June 2018
• All of which, to those who sensed the explosive charge of the earlier Elvis, is a travesty, a tragedy, and a kind of creative death.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 June 2022
• But the fact that the mainstream is only catching on to the truth five decades after the fact is its own kind of travesty — and call to action.
  — Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Oct. 2021
• The travesty that has ensued is that so many Americans reject that right and the man who stands by it.
  — Marcos Bretón, sacbee, 13 Apr. 2018
• The fact that this Dua Lipa album came out with everyone locked in the house is a travesty.
  — Neha Prakash, Marie Claire, 15 Mar. 2021
• The Hall of Fame wouldn’t even recognize it, which was a real travesty.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2021
• And of course most responsible for this travesty, though, of all these delays and all the foot dragging, are the Democrats.
  — Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
• The broadcast team tried to wring a narrative from this travesty.
  — Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
• While this is truly a travesty, the police can’t do anything about this.
  — Fox News, 5 June 2019
• And not standing with it or not protecting it is a travesty.
  — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 7 Apr. 2022
• Many trans activists denounced the ruling as a travesty, or even a denial of the right of trans people to exist.
  — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2020
• What a travesty that this British show only got one season.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 27 June 2022
• All Americans, as well as the GOP, need to speak out against this travesty that is our president.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 16 July 2019
• There’s tragedy and travesty there, but the film is more about the actual reality of the child then having to survive in that situation.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2023
• But the playoffs involve only a relative handful of games, resulting in a travesty.
  — Steve Forbes, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024