How to Use vaudeville in a Sentence

vaudeville

noun

• She became a big star in vaudeville.
• Comedy shorts have played the role of the new vaudeville for years now.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2023
• Travel back in time with Olde Wrestling and vaudeville duo, Pinch and Squeal.
  — cleveland.com, 2 May 2018
• Trump was that hostile-jaunty guy in the big flappy suit, with the vaudeville hair, the pursed lips, and the glare.
  — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
• The good news was that lakefront land was cleared and cheap by the time Joe Keaton passed through town on a vaudeville tour.
  — Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2022
• Then the Palm Springs Follies, the big vaudeville review, took it over for 23 years.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2022
• The event will happen June 24-25, and carry a vaudeville theme.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Apr. 2022
• Why does the sweeping descent look fit for the opening night of a vaudeville show?
  — Steve Annear, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2021
• Her dog and triplet sisters with a life on the vaudeville stage are her best hopes of bringing him home.
  — Barry Levitt, Vulture, 31 May 2024
• When the theaters of Playhouse Square opened 101 years ago, they were used for movies and vaudeville shows.
  — cleveland, 25 Mar. 2022
• All the musical numbers in the stage play are all vaudeville turns.
  — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2022
• With the end of World War I, the Roaring ‘20s were starting to echo and vaudeville was flourishing.
  — Thor Christensen, Dallas News, 9 Apr. 2021
• The brown, green and rust-colored shreds of algae made the beach look like the floor of a vaudeville dressing room at showtime.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2021
• Speaking of dancing and singing, Gypsy makes her way through the last days of vaudeville.
  — Philly.com, 28 May 2017
• Opened as a vaudeville house in 1915, the theater now hosts live performances and movies.
  — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2021
• The theater, which opened in 1928 as a vaudeville stage, doesn't have a loading dock or parking lot.
  — Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2020
• With theaters shuttered, Groom built the vaudeville stage from scratch.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 29 July 2022
• Until the late 1950s, the Blue Room offered a vaudeville-style bill instead of a star performer.
  — NOLA.com, 11 June 2017
• As Judy got older, her mother brought her to vaudeville clubs and the Chicago World’s Fair.
  — refinery29.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• In the old days of vaudeville, there was a lot of dialect comedy, but now we're not allowed to do that.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 May 2024
• The show is about comic Bert Williams, one of the giants of America’s vaudeville stage.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• Dad came from a family where vaudeville was in the picture.
  — Michael Hainey, Esquire, 13 Sep. 2017
• The saucy blues singer and vaudeville star Sophie Tucker was raised in Hartford.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• Vidiots' future home opened as a vaudeville stage in May 1929 as The Yosemite Theatre.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2019
• A century ago, as the West Rock Theater, the venue offered silent movies and vaudeville acts.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 26 June 2018
• Niagara Falls All Over Again, are two men who have made their fame as a vaudeville team.
  — Yiyun Li, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• For the next four years, Peggy and her parents worked in vaudeville, then in its waning days before the rise of sound films.
  — Terence McArdle, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2020
• On that evening’s opening-night bill were the vaudeville acts Fanchon & Marco and the Sunkist Beauties.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2023
• In that time, the theater operated as a vaudeville house with stage shows and short films.
  — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 31 July 2024
• In a nightmare version of the Gilded Age, bankers and stevedores alike attend vaudevilles, swig opium, and sign contracts with Mephistopheles.
  — The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024