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Travesties is an English word. Below you'll find 6 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Travesties in a sentence

Travesties meaning

plural of travesty

Using Travesties

  • The main meaning on this page is: plural of travesty
  • In the example corpus, travesties often appears in combinations such as: travesties in.

Context around Travesties

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 23.2 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 3 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations

Often before:

monumental 1× political 1× challenge 1× recent 1× play 1×

Often after:

treads 1× 1974 1×

Sentence patterns with Travesties

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

greatest political travesties in american 1× his play travesties 1974 which 1× s monumental travesties treads through 1× the recent travesties in flint 1× the travesties from her 1× to challenge travesties 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

but veteran water 1× joel fermin it 1× mosaic s monumental 1× the travesties from 1× this abuse resulted 1× tom stoppard used 1×

Common sentence endings:

ailing public systems 1× but five times 1× comes out laughing 1× in a statement 1× joyce as characters 1× to challenge travesties 1×

Words around Travesties

Just before it in the word index:

travertine 20 traverso 2 traversing 135 traversible 2 traverses 76 traversed 116

Just after it in the word index:

travestis 2 travesty 98 travia 3 traviata 20 travillion 2 travinski 4

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaas 8 aacc 8 aacs 8 aafes 8 aankh 8 aapp 8

Corpus analysis for Travesties

  • In this selection, "travesties" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, monumental, political, challenge, treads and 1974 stand out and add context to how "travesties" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include greatest political travesties in american and his play travesties 1974 which. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "travesties" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with travesties

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Joel Fermin: It is not now that we are afraid to challenge travesties. (13 words)

Mosaic's "Monumental Travesties" treads through difficult race-relations territory and still comes out laughing. (15 words)

Tom Stoppard used this coincidence as a premise for his play Travesties (1974), which includes Tzara, Lenin, and James Joyce as characters. (22 words)

Longer example sentences

The travesties from her childhood later had her trapped working tirelessly to provide for herself and her baby girls – one of which had survived from gunfire not once, but five times! (31 words)

But veteran water experts point to the recent travesties in Flint and Pittsburgh as evidence of what can go wrong when profit-driven companies are given responsibility for ailing public systems. (31 words)

This abuse resulted in one of the greatest political travesties in American history and should never happen again,“ Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said in a statement. (27 words)

Exclamation examples

The travesties from her childhood later had her trapped working tirelessly to provide for herself and her baby girls – one of which had survived from gunfire not once, but five times! (31 words)

Example sentences (6)

Mosaic's "Monumental Travesties" treads through difficult race-relations territory and still comes out laughing.

This abuse resulted in one of the greatest political travesties in American history and should never happen again,“ Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said in a statement.

Joel Fermin: It is not now that we are afraid to challenge travesties.

The travesties from her childhood later had her trapped working tirelessly to provide for herself and her baby girls – one of which had survived from gunfire not once, but five times!

But veteran water experts point to the recent travesties in Flint and Pittsburgh as evidence of what can go wrong when profit-driven companies are given responsibility for ailing public systems.

Tom Stoppard used this coincidence as a premise for his play Travesties (1974), which includes Tzara, Lenin, and James Joyce as characters.

Common combinations with travesties

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

  • travesties in 2×

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "travesties" in a sentence?
An example: "Mosaic's "Monumental Travesties" treads through difficult race-relations territory and still comes out laughing." This page contains 6 example sentences with the word "travesties" from authentic English texts.
What does "travesties" mean?
Travesties means: plural of travesty
How many example sentences with "travesties" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 6 example sentences with "travesties", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.