How to Use shtick in a Sentence

shtick

noun

• That joke is part of his shtick.
• Sports are just not my shtick.
• And that's sort of part of the shtick of that campaign anyway.
  — NBC News, 5 Feb. 2020
• Even Trump seemed to sense that the shtick wasn't working this time.
  — Arkansas Online, 18 Nov. 2022
• The Martin and Lewis shtick was magic on the big screen.
  — Michael Driscoll, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2017
• For the good of the industry, the Winklevoss twins should find a new shtick.
  — Byjeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 11 Aug. 2023
• The best part of the whole thing is King Ezekiel never gives up his King Arthur shtick.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland.com, 29 Oct. 2017
• Trump’s shtick about the wall doesn’t even rise to the level of truthiness, let alone truth.
  — Eugene Robinson, The Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2017
• And please don’t tell us that this is all just harmless shtick.
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 22 July 2024
• Polls show many voters have grown tired of his shtick — and tweets.
  — Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2017
• Hart finds new ways to riff on his little-man-in-a-big-world shtick.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• One day, that whole shtick might get old, but that day isn't today.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• That’s why my whole shtick on the internet about the bird tweeted a D-sharp.
  — Nate Sloan, Vulture, 28 May 2024
• So how the Oscars will look like going for it and their whole shtick could turn off of this year.
  — James Brown, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2022
• At this point, those of us with both feet firmly planted on the black side of things get her whole shtick.
  — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 25 Aug. 2017
• His handle isn’t far enough along for his shtick to completely work in the pros.
  — Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• Loop parking lots placed them on cars, and the combination of words and shtick turned the trick.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 3 Mar. 2022
• The 1978 movie proved that Cheech and Chong could translate their shtick from vinyl to celluloid.
  — Noel Murray, latimes.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• As their name suggests, their main shtick is to help plan out your finances.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 22 Jan. 2024
• The character may be tiny but his big shtick is hard to resist.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2019
• Their shtick is having six tourists stand in a line and bend over at their waists — while Mabon runs, leaps and flips over all of them.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Sep. 2021
• But the singer has decided to retire the lyrical shtick this time around.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2024
• He’s also got a better handle on the saving the world shtick.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2023
• The flintiness about every little thing is part of their shtick.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2023
• At times, new episodes elicit the same emotions as the first season, but sometimes the shtick falls flat.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 15 June 2018
• That set Ford on a shtick of forgetfulness that lasted the rest of the segment.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 6 Oct. 2017
• The dizzying pacing, the litany of hapless jokes, the all-out slapstick and the familiar shtick.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
• On these two shows shtick is valued as much (maybe even more) as substance.
  — Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2024
• Cooper, along with Franklyn, tried to keep up the same shtick that made Call Her Daddy so famous.
  — Morgan Baila, refinery29.com, 21 July 2021
• With all due respect, Roundhouse veered away from the shtick of All That, perhaps to its detriment.
  — Eliot Glazer, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024