How to Use slapstick in a Sentence

slapstick

noun

• The dizzying pacing, the litany of hapless jokes, the all-out slapstick and the familiar shtick.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
• The result is the stuff of silly slapstick rather than a full-Cage head trip.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
• Punch, freed, grabs up a slapstick and wallops him with it.
  — Robert Coover, The New Yorker, 18 July 2019
• The slapstick is lame, the jokes are lazy, and the attempts at drama are hollow.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018
• It’s one of the novel’s first big set pieces, a crosstalk-and-slapstick routine.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 24 June 2021
• In the 1940s, humor was mostly about corny jokes with punch lines, and loads of slapstick.
  — Scott Adams, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2017
• But their attempts at slapstick and self-aware jokes land with a dull thud.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 11 Nov. 2021
• The slapstick hit is an adaptation of a Mahua Funage stage play of the same name.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2017
• And a lot of the techniques that once seemed fresh — the fragments, the slapstick, the madcap sound design — now feel like clichés.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2018
• This was Hector taking a slapstick fall from the walls of Troy on his way to battle with the Achaeans.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2023
• More slapstick gags are assigned to an Aquaman knock-off called The Deep.
  — M.s., The Economist, 27 Aug. 2019
• If anything, the jokes that are supposed to please adults are even weaker than the slapstick.
  — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 28 July 2022
• Green Bay’s screen game was the worst kind of slapstick comedy.
  — Gary Gramling, SI.com, 21 Oct. 2017
• But much of the slapstick involving the IFs feels generic.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2024
• There is plenty of loud scoring and slapstick in the many chase sequences.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• The show is both a slapstick romp and a ruthless tragedy, in which even the Chechen gangsters get pulled into the mess of emotions.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 23 Mar. 2018
• And the movie, despite being filled with broad slapstick, ends on a melancholy note.
  — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Jan. 2018
• Luigi’s Mansion 3 is pure slapstick, and there just aren’t enough games like that.
  — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 12 June 2019
• He was submerged in pie-in-the-face slapstick from his earliest years.
  — Adam Bernstein, Alaska Dispatch News, 20 Aug. 2017
• Frayn's secret sauce: In the second of the three attempts, all the action and slapstick is seen from backstage.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2023
• That said, there is quite a bit lurking just under the slapstick surface.
  — Christian Lewis, Variety, 12 July 2024
• So put your brain in the fridge, sit back and enjoy a laugh watching this symphony of slapstick.
  — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 14 July 2020
• Adults, on the other hand, will spend much of their time scrolling on their phones since the humor is very much of the juvenile slapstick sort.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 July 2024
• Some of the set pieces have a slapstick quality to them that’s delightful.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
• The character can’t wait to show the world what he’s got — and Wilson has vocal talent and slapstick skill to spare.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• The show, a mix of slapstick and drama, is based on the cult 1985 Paramount movie and everybody’s favorite board game.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2023
• There are plenty of dad jokes and moments of slapstick humor.
  — Bryan West, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2024
• So why not bring in somebody so adept with slapstick and goofy visual humor?
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 5 July 2018
• Or is this the brief comedic creation of a virtual slapstick genius?
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2019
• Trump’s ear-clutching plummet is odd to see, at first almost slapstick being silent and out of context, but the more the sequence repeats the more I am drawn to the moment ahead.
  — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 18 July 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024