How to Use Kabuki in a Sentence

Kabuki

noun
  • Actors have portrayed Luffy and his crew in stage shows and even in a Kabuki play.
    — Charles Solomon, New York Times, 2023-08-29
  • In the tradition of Kabuki theater, actors paint this same white makeup on.
    — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 2024-03-09
  • The final Kabuki dance move is the passage of the final budget by June 15th.
    — Jon Coupal, Orange County Register, 2024-02-25
  • Backstage, Ripley got in a shouting match with the Kabuki Warriors as Iyo angrily stormed out.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • His traditional Kabuki figure is unraveling in time and space, along with the once very popular Bunka shishu kit itself.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 2023-07-25
  • Hotel Kabuki is a peaceful retreat that perfectly reflects its Japantown surroundings.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 2024-05-01
  • Now your shows are messing around with German expressionistic lighting, Kabuki tropes, and comically oversize suits.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2023-09-27
  • Mishima’s choice of a samurai suicide was almost a pastiche of Japanese tradition, a Kabuki fantasy, another illusion.
    — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 2025-01-06
  • Terminal 2 has a Japanese art gallery, and there’s an exhibit on traditional Kabuki theater in Terminal 1.
    — Lottie Gross, AFAR Media, 2025-04-25
  • The stories of the Edo period and specifically Tokugawa — the real-life shogun who inspired the character of Toranaga — are a frequent subject of Kabuki theater.
    — Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 2024-08-08
  • Some observers speculate that Putin, an impenetrable and often seemingly isolated figure, is the only person who fully believed the Kabuki theater of Russia’s election.
    — Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 2024-03-18
  • For now, all the Kremlin’s public statements about being willing to negotiate are merely Kabuki theater designed to paint Moscow in a favorable light in order to undermine international support for Ukraine.
    — Branislav L. Slantchev, Foreign Affairs, 2024-04-01
  • Making his first foray into contemporary television drama, Ichikawa has already established himself as a rising talent in traditional Kabuki theater, an art form recognized by UNESCO.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Aug. 2025
  • His 2025 film, Kokuho, set in the world of Kabuki, world premiered in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and became a box office phenomenon in Japan, breaking records for live-action admissions and surpassing 10 billion yen in ticket sales.
    — Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • CrossPoint Church will have a blood drive on August 12 in memory of Sterling Raspe who was born with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) and Kabuki Syndrome and was once saved by a transfusion, proving that every donation matters.
    — Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025

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