How to Use farce in a Sentence

farce

noun
  • All the farce, in that way, hints at tragedy.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2026
  • The most staggering part of this farce is the math.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 24 June 2026
  • This farce was predictable but not inevitable.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2026
  • In the right hands, the gap between tragedy and farce can be razor-thin.
    — The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Adding to the farce was the absence of a senior coaching team.
    — Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2025
  • For most of the book, the farce felt too far from Earth for Zink to land it.
    — Lynn Steger Strong, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2022
  • In another show, the whole setup could have been farce or camp.
    — Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2026
  • And any notion that the pandemic’s end will mark the end of smushing is a farce.
    — Zak Jason, Wired, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Perhaps a bit of bedroom farce around men wearing a woman’s trousers?
    — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Granted, some of you were too young to experience the farce.
    — Michael Silver, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Is this a biting farce about the vacuities of celebrity industry?
    — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The farce will arrive in the inevitable attempts to turn this all into, yes, a movie.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2023
  • These cacophonous tones remind us that the real world, too, can be a ghastly farce.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The notion of quantum crypto-agility is, in essence, a farce.
    — Kevin Bocek, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The scripts were clever, and written for adults, but then the writers could also pull off ebullient farce.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Oct. 2022
  • What is deeply unfunny about the whole thing is that Democrats could end this farce at any time and have not yet done so.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Hong gives a fine enough performance, but lacks the tricky gift for farce that would have made her performance more comedic.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Oct. 2022
  • In farce timing is everything, from the right look of anguish to the rhythm of the slamming doors.
    — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Which was later adapted into a 60s farce.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The farce of it all is that Thomas really did not need Crow to pay for the tuition.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 4 May 2023
  • However, there were many more leaders who were complicit in the farce.
    — Melissa Daimler, Fortune, 10 May 2022
  • The challenge was not to fall into frivolity, or comic farce.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Cotta has a face fit for farce, with puzzled, wide eyes that Abrantes takes great pleasure in pulling the wool over.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024
  • What’s the challenge of writing a farce like this and capturing that dynamic on the page?
    — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
  • These gags can be funny, but the propulsive mechanics of farce require more of a sense of movement.
    — Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The song has so much force that, like a comet pulled from orbit, its gravitational pull throws a light farce out of whack.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The air war in Kosovo made international law look like a farce.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The film starts out as a farfetched farce of illusion and then grows more…complicated.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 May 2026
  • The fourth episode turns on a dinnertime farce about six people, most of whom have slept together, some of whom are the same whom.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 May 2022
  • There’s a very big difference between farce, parody, and satire.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025

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