How to Use kayfabe in a Sentence

kayfabe

noun
  • Her kayfabe is all over the place.
    — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The end of kayfabe brought about a strange artistic flourishing—wrestling postmodernism.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The mystery of what living in a perpetual state of kayfabe must feel like is much of what compels me to keep up with the family’s content.
    — Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
  • Newsom’s critics certainly don’t get the joke, but can his supporters be sure going forward which part is sincere and which part is just kayfabe?
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Gunther appeared to have gotten his foot on the rope as Gunther was extremely (kayfabe) upset with the referee.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • But the kayfabe will continue on both sides until morale improves, with leaders working on promo skills instead of real solutions.
    — Ian Chaffee, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Wrestlers had always operated under a code of silence, known as kayfabe, that forbade acknowledging that the entire thing was scripted.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The match saw Danhausen curse Morgan, and Sky battled through a kayfabe knee injury, demonstrating incredible resilience.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • Despite the scandal and disillusionment that marked his later years, Hogan was the living embodiment of kayfabe — the elaborate fiction at the heart of professional wrestling.
    — Arkansas Online, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Wilson’s approach to public life clearly has an element of what professional wrestlers call kayfabe—the winking, performative trollishness that now characterizes the online right.
    — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026
  • Facing a kayfabe firing on the May 18 Raw, Fatu challenged Reigns to Tribal Combat, framing the storyline as a Bloodline succession question.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
  • Cody Rhodes destroys ‘outside forces’ in scathing promo Cody Rhodes’ promos in the midst of Pat McAfee’s insertion into his WrestleMania feud with Randy Orton blurred the line on what was real and what was kayfabe.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Interview With the Vampire, and now The Vampire Lestat, require a suspension of disbelief and willingness to go beyond the normal mores of TV to enjoy its twists and pleasures to the fullest extent, and the crowd inside the theater was all too willing to go along with the kayfabe.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 3 June 2026

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