Vaudeville is an English word with synonyms like variety. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Vaudeville in a sentence
Vaudeville meaning
- A style of multi-act theatrical entertainment which originated from France and flourished in Europe and North America from the 1880s through the 1920s.
- An entertainment in this style.
Synonyms of Vaudeville
Using Vaudeville
- The main meaning on this page is: A style of multi-act theatrical entertainment which originated from France and flourished in Europe and North America from the 1880s through the 1920s. | An entertainment in this style.
- Useful related words include: music hall, variety show, variety.
- In the example corpus, vaudeville often appears in combinations such as: of vaudeville, the vaudeville, vaudeville and.
Context around Vaudeville
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 10 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Vaudeville
- In this selection, "vaudeville" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, top, clean, classic, show, stars and reached stand out and add context to how "vaudeville" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include audiences mature vaudeville grew to and birth of vaudeville is october. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "vaudeville" sits close to words such as allspring, aloft and asparagus, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with vaudeville
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Foto: The Dolly Sisters were German Vaudeville performers. (8 words)
Vaudeville drew tens of millions of patrons per year. (9 words)
The students looked to Vaudeville and sideshows, mostly 1880-1930, for inspiration. (12 words)
This brings us to the aforementioned Governor Newsom, the Democrat shadow presidential candidate who’s not-so-quietly auditioning for the job should his party’s powerbrokers find a way to Vaudeville-hook both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris off the stage. (42 words)
Mattie Ross lives long enough to find Jesse James’s brother sipping Coca-Colas with Cole Younger in a Pullman car, the pair waiting to stage a vaudeville show in the stadium of the Memphis Chicks, a minor-league baseball team. (41 words)
The usual date given for the "birth" of vaudeville is October 24, 1881 at New York's Fourteenth Street Theater, when Pastor famously staged the first bill of self-proclaimed "clean" vaudeville in New York City. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Historian John Kenrick wrote: Top vaudeville stars filmed their acts for one-time pay-offs, inadvertently helping to speed the death of vaudeville.
The usual date given for the "birth" of vaudeville is October 24, 1881 at New York's Fourteenth Street Theater, when Pastor famously staged the first bill of self-proclaimed "clean" vaudeville in New York City.
Though classic vaudeville reached a zenith of capitalization and sophistication in urban areas dominated by national chains and commodious theatres, small-time vaudeville included countless more intimate and locally controlled houses.
While the neighborhood character of vaudeville attendance had always promoted a tendency to tailor fare to specific audiences, mature vaudeville grew to feature houses and circuits specifically aimed at certain demographic groups.
How anybody can let politicians play them for fools and pretend these vaudeville-style shows are harmful is beyond me.
Mattie Ross lives long enough to find Jesse James’s brother sipping Coca-Colas with Cole Younger in a Pullman car, the pair waiting to stage a vaudeville show in the stadium of the Memphis Chicks, a minor-league baseball team.
This brings us to the aforementioned Governor Newsom, the Democrat shadow presidential candidate who’s not-so-quietly auditioning for the job should his party’s powerbrokers find a way to Vaudeville-hook both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris off the stage.
This provides the major ingredient for not only a farce but a farce with all of the flair of old vaudeville.
Broadway’s longest-running show, has faroutpaced the original production of Bob Fosse, John Kander and Fred Ebb’s dark vaudeville about Roxie Hart, Velma Kelly and all that jazz.
THE annual Vaudeville Show fundraiser by Lymm Panto troupe is set to return this summer.
Foto: The Dolly Sisters were German Vaudeville performers.
She, along with Fred, was involved with Vaudeville before they began managing their apartment building.
The students looked to Vaudeville and sideshows, mostly 1880-1930, for inspiration.
Vaudeville drew tens of millions of patrons per year.
We saw the rise of Vaudeville—an art form that brought cis-white male performers to the forefront.
Carried along on a wave of vaudeville turns, sprightly dancing, insinuating jokes and raucous and romantic songs, Once Upon a Mattress provides non-stop, side-splitting shenanigans.
Entertaining was all Davis knew since he started on the vaudeville circuit when he was three years old.
Growing up, Mr. Phoenix spent time busking with his brothers and sisters in Los Angeles; vaudeville is in his body’s history, too.
He first broke molds with his Cobra Lounge vaudeville shows of the 90’s, hosted by his alter-ego, Spoonman.
It’s interesting too because I feel like with vaudeville, people think of there being much less travel of information in the 19th century.
Common combinations with vaudeville
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of vaudeville 14×
- the vaudeville 14×
- vaudeville and 8×
- in vaudeville 7×
- to vaudeville 6×
- vaudeville in 4×
- vaudeville circuit 4×
- vaudeville shows 3×
- vaudeville era 3×
- his vaudeville 3×