How to Use sight gag in a Sentence

sight gag

noun

• Among Thieves is one of the best sight gags of the year so far.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 29 Mar. 2023
• But Mammone and the women had fun with the quirky sight gag.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 20 Sep. 2017
• No culture is too haughty for a sight gag or too elitist for a pun.
  — Michelle Cohn, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2022
• Why treat the eagle attack on Bug as a jump scare instead of a sight gag?
  — cleveland, 17 Aug. 2023
• Or, Payne could have just gone full-blown sight gags and made this a broad comedy.
  — Rick Bentley, idahostatesman, 25 Dec. 2017
• The jokes and sight gags come hard and fast, and if a few fail to land, no matter—there are plenty of other laughs to be had.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2019
• But were the bracelets real, or just a sight gag for a political video?
  — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Mar. 2017
• Ian asking Poppy to take care of his rings leads to a nice sight gag of David dressed as Ian to channel his mind-set.
  — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 7 May 2021
• Though larded with audacious jokes and sight gags, the play had a strong emotive core.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
• There are not as many where the humor feels baked into the set design, where the sight gags are more notable than the one-liners.
  — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 16 July 2024
• In fact, that goes for any story about cannabis in the U.S. — money has always been lurking in the background, like a sight gag in a Cheech & Chong movie.
  — Longreads, 20 Apr. 2023
• And, at its most elemental, South Park is founded on a sight gag with legs.
  — Chris Norris, SPIN, 13 Aug. 2022
• Fewer probably still thought that the band would make a sight gag out of flashing an image of the LaBrea Tar Pits on the overhead screen.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 11 July 2024
• More refined palates might prefer Pipe Garfield, which replaces the last panel of every strip with the 1978 sight gag in which Garfield smokes a pipe.
  — New York Times, 4 June 2020
• All are male, except for a single female character brought on for a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it sight gag.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 22 Dec. 2020
• This makes the hard cut to her passed out in the passenger seat an especially funny sight gag.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 5 Feb. 2023
• But the toughest to master for Rudd involved a brief sight gag in which his suit malfunctions, zapping him to the size of a toddler.
  — Eli Wolfe, SFChronicle.com, 2 July 2018
• Her favorite memory was a sight gag of her kissing Matt LeBlanc.
  — Marc Malkin, Variety, 9 Nov. 2022
• The series brings up a string of aging complaints (hip surgery, gray hair, colonoscopy), but the M-word only comes up briefly and is later used as a sight gag.
  — Tara Ellison, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2022
• Amid all the whooshing, though, try to hold on to the image of that circle, which isn’t the easiest thing to do amid all the sights and sounds, frenzied fight scenes and grotesque sight gags that Daniels — a.k.a.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2023
• Big sight gags are fine, but if there's the slightest doubt that something pushes too far in an effort to get noticed, err on the side of caution.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 2 Feb. 2020
• The seeming callousness with which the dancers burlesque a fourteen-year-old’s death—the breezy way that the dance turns a killing into a sight gag—induces a shiver.
  — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
• The sight gag was excellent, but Chandler cracking wise from inside the box brought the episode to a timeless level of funny.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 5 June 2019
• The certain sight gag of piloting a virtual goose around gives way to the nuisance of piloting a goose around.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2019
• Throughout is a running sight gag — Baby Monkey trying to get on his pants.
  — Susan Faust, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2018
• Why are warm moments upended by sight gags involving props being thrown and caught across the stage?
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 10 June 2019
• At least in the first episode, the series is better at its animated sight gags than its dialogue.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2018
• Her performance is among the strongest, propelled by an iconic outfit and great sight gags.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 10 May 2018
• In an oddly thrilling sight gag, the couple stop talking for a whole minute and watch the glowing microwave while the food warms up—that’s one way, plate by plate, to watch your whole life zapping past you.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• The station becomes a success, with all sorts of hilarious sight gags and wacky humor.
  — Houston Chronicle, 25 July 2019

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