How to Use caricature in a Sentence

caricature

1 of 2 noun
  • An artist was doing caricatures in the park.
  • His performance in the film was a caricature of a hard-boiled detective.
  • The interview made her into a caricature of a struggling artist.
  • At first, [it] maybe could have felt like a caricature.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
  • Each of the boxes and packets had a caricature of a white cat on the front.
    — oregonlive, 31 Mar. 2023
  • In lesser hands, the roles could be caricatures.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 27 Jan. 2026
  • And the thing about caricatures?
    — Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 20 June 2026
  • One way to think about this image is to ask whether it’s meant to be a caricature of the original.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
  • But Palmer embeds her caricature with awareness of how it will be used.
    — New York Times, 22 July 2022
  • There's a very fine line between playing an archetype and playing a caricature.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Karp says these attacks rely on caricature, not fact.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2025
  • As written on the page, Beth mostly feels like a caricature.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The racial caricature on the cover of that book of mugshots goes some way toward explaining all of the above.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2022
  • But this caricature misses the mark.
    — Richard Hickman, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025
  • In less careful hands, the role could have collapsed into caricature.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Take part in the fun like a two-mile ride (or walk), a seven-mile ride, rock climbing wall, face painting and caricatures.
    — John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2023
  • The tone is comic, sometimes even caricature-like.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Easy isn’t a caricature, even if the people and events around him increasingly feel that way.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Not one character in the film is a caricature, and that was important.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 15 June 2022
  • And every crowd has their caricatures and kind of gets kind of represented by the kind of the goofiness of that.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 20 July 2023
  • The actors, too, refrain from caricature to the right degree.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 23 Mar. 2023
  • These pictographs, like the smiley-face caricature, are self-portraits too.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
  • In a show full of caricatures, Moira was the loudest and least plausible.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
  • So be authentic and be yourself, but also be a bit of a caricature of yourself.
    — Terry Terrones, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
  • The press was happy to accept her as a caricature, with her blond wig and false lashes, her heels, her diamonds.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • His flamboyance never tips into caricature, and along with wit and warmth there is real pain.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Holtz in his later years became something of a caricature, like an actor who leans into the over-the-top quirks of his role.
    — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026
  • But the caricature never quite contained her.
    — ABC News, 6 June 2026
  • This was the man, not the caricature that Red Wings rivalry often framed him as.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 28 May 2026
  • Rushdie would not allow himself to be reduced to the caricature that his enemies wanted to make of him.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2022

caricature

2 of 2 verb
  • The press caricatured him as clumsy and forgetful.
  • For years, national media caricatured our city as a war zone.
    — Andy Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
  • But Biden is not the across-the-board liberal hawk that he is sometimes caricatured as.
    — Noah Millman, TheWeek, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Some fun moments, but aside from the two leads, the movie given to caricature and some on-the-nose dialogue.
    — Philly.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Moreover, what do the businessmen caricatured in the film think?
    — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Too often, trust and safety teams get caricatured as partisan scolds and censors.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2023
  • But the differences in character, caricatured or not, show up in other measures as well.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2019
  • And the ones that do exist were faceless in fields, or caricatured — displayed as subservient property.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 20 June 2026
  • There’ll be festival fun including games, stilt walkers and caricature artists, plus food trucks and pop-up bars throughout the park.
    — Norma Cavazos, Dallas News, 28 June 2023
  • The human body, dissected and caricatured, is the basis of Yashnyk’s work.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
  • With no facts to support this assertion, Kenyon resorts to caricature.
    — Olivia Gentile, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
  • That gave Democrats an opening to caricature them as pawns of the president and a party establishment that was using them.
    — NBC news, 6 Jan. 2021
  • The edge, as well as the humor, were in the sketches themselves — sometimes caricature, sometimes commentary, sometimes both.
    — Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 29 June 2026
  • Over the phone, Filliozat rejected the idea that she was driven by greed and accused Goldman of caricaturing her work.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • However his story can no longer be reduced to caricature – and his legacy might just help check our present-day incineration of democracy.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 17 June 2021
  • What is bad is the stealing, laziness, and caricaturing that’s become rampant within creative industries.
    — Connie Wang, refinery29.com, 24 May 2018
  • Netflix Each story has the feeling of a yarn that was based in some reality but has grown and shifted and become more acutely caricatured as people retold it.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 15 Oct. 2018
  • MacPhisto was Bono’s way of caricaturing himself, a full-of-himself rock star embodying his own cartoon image.
    — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2018
  • These changes have been caricatured as authoritarian and corrupt.
    — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Pelosi, who has served in Congress for more than three decades, has long been caricatured as a San Francisco limousine liberal with extreme views.
    — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2020
  • Ted Kennedy has often been caricatured as a boorish drunk, but Clarke gives him an emotional depth that Kennedy’s detractors too often discount.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Images of neck-rolling, finger-snapping, gum-popping black women caricatured in movies and TV shows showed me exactly what people expected from me.
    — Maya Rupert, The Atlantic, 29 May 2017
  • The Process created a community of fans that were easy to caricature, particularly since almost all of this happened online.
    — Andrew Sharp, SI.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Welfare reform is also likely to be caricatured, even if it is well designed, as a way for Republicans to take money from the poor right after the party cut corporate-tax rates.
    — Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 25 Jan. 2018
  • This idea of reasonableness is easily caricatured as moral timidity or a bloodless neutrality that drains politics of passion.
    — Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • In an accompanying cartoon, Spark is caricatured as a sulking giant, tottering above the Tuscan countryside in a pair of high heels.
    — Literary Hub, 9 June 2026
  • William McFeely recognizes the complexity of the man Henry Adams reduced to caricature.
    — WSJ, 13 Oct. 2017
  • While the rest of the country may caricature California as a bastion of out-of-touch liberals, the Central Valley defies that stereotype.
    — Melanie Mason, latimes.com, 4 June 2019
  • But as written by Mark Rosenblatt and directed by Nicholas Hytner, Giant doesn’t caricature its subject.
    — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 31 May 2026
  • As a comedic performer unafraid to caricature herself, Brice laid the groundwork for generations of women who did not fit the traditional mold of demure, leggy female performers.
    — Chloe Malle, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2022

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