How to Use farcical in a Sentence

farcical

adjective
  • Then, a 300-year-old man shows up and there is farcical wrestling at sea.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2026
  • Yet this farcical tale is swallowed whole along with the meal by the hapless, guileless youths.
    — Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 13 June 2019
  • For others on the board, these sorts of public debates were farcical.
    — Ryan Kost, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 May 2022
  • Granted, there’s a minor farcical streak that offers the film a bit of an escape hatch.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 24 May 2025
  • Unprecedented highs were combined with farcical lows that would not have looked out of place in the old days.
    — Sam Lee, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Joseph Zimmer is the doctor, cast in the straight-man role for the farcical moments.
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The mechanics of talking to his sons sound farcical.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The end of the world, at least for Adam McKay, is both farcical and poignant.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Part of it is, any regular season less than 80 games is farcical.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 10 June 2020
  • That brings us to the latest installment of this farcical affair.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • This kind of farcical take on a classic story with a small cast playing many roles is a kind of subgenre in itself.
    — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Most of the important events in history are both tragic and farcical, at the same time.
    — Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2022
  • This has been made clear over and over again in a series of increasingly farcical hearings.
    — Matthew Walther, TheWeek, 14 Dec. 2020
  • The doors that slam, as farcical doors are built to do, open to work spaces, where a good deal of time is spent scheming and counter-scheming.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The comic potential of this setup isn’t hard to spot, and many movies have followed the farcical path.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Perhaps the series has reached its farcical end, having already gone to the deep seas and outer space.
    — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The time jump also binds the show’s visions and flashbacks to its more literal, and farcical, mode.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
  • There’s almost something farcical about the White House with all of the doors and people.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Johnston portrays the aching, farcical nature of existence in just a few pages.
    — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2021
  • But that is where Chelsea are, and a farcical first 20 minutes realised the worst-case scenario fears.
    — Liam Twomey, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Spotlights are dull and bright, colored and white, while props and stage sets fall from the rafters – a farcical nod to magical realism?
    — Hugh Hunter, Philly.com, 25 June 2017
  • Roberts and Bracey, no doubt aware that their main role is to set the farcical plot in motion, fulfill their duties charmingly.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2023
  • For all its farcical comedy, this play takes the music in it seriously.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2026
  • In this enthralling story about farcical invention in the face of calamitous grief, the writing is taut as ever.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The machine ended up a farcical hunk of equipment, a laugh line for both the Jetsons and the audience.
    — Britt H. Young, Wired, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The show features a handful of violent shocks, sure, but the spirit of the first two seasons is equal parts farcical and convivial.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 29 July 2022
  • The farcical moment punctuated a week of unmasking — not just on the show, but across the country.
    — Richard Galant, CNN, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Take away the magical, beyond-farcical setup, and what’s left is a timeless story.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2025
  • There are millions of people around the world who are not allowed to vote, or whose elections are so corrupt and farcical that voting is pointless.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Indian pitches, of course, should turn and be dustbowls but not become farcical as per the scenes in Ahmedabad.
    — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021

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