How to Use pastiche in a Sentence

pastiche

noun
  • With this work she goes beyond pastiche.
  • The house is decorated in a pastiche of Asian styles.
  • The research paper was essentially a pastiche made up of passages from different sources.
  • His earlier building designs were pastiches based on classical forms.
  • There are so many pastiche rock bands out there.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2025
  • There are so many pastiche rock bands out there.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Stranger Things is no longer ’80s pastiche.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2025
  • But while pastiche is the best way to create a great halftime show, this one was just too much.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2025
  • That song was one of the duo’s finest, a Motown pastiche full of wit, melody and heart.
    — Jude Rogers, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The episode also features your own pastiche of the Psych theme.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2025
  • There’s a key change in the chorus that feels like a pastiche of Lily Allen.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 Nov. 2025
  • But, as the minutes tick by—more than eighty of them, by my count—the appeal of the pastiche wears thin.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The play, however, is no pastiche.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 May 2026
  • Maddin gained renown at the start of his career for his layered and witty pastiches of silent film.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 May 2024
  • There’s nothing wrong with pastiche or stylization, of course.
    — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2017
  • This complex pastiche reemerged during lockdown as parents had a lot more time to doom-scroll.
    — ELLE, 4 Apr. 2022
  • This doesn’t change the fact that the novel is a kind of pastiche of past Western novels.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 11 July 2023
  • There's no script to speak of, just a pastiche of platitudes about the tumultuous decade.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 13 May 2018
  • The conflict is, rather, a pastiche of brief clashes in valleys and farmlands.
    — Bing West, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2011
  • Monochrome prints of wispy leaves, arranged in a floaty pastiche, relate to both elements.
    — Eleanore Park, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2019
  • While these books tend toward enjoyable pastiches, at least one rises to the level of an art form.
    — Yvonne Zipp, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Even now, after two and a half years, rules around preschool and school feel like a random pastiche that varies wildly from town to town and school to school.
    — Kara Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2022
  • The visionary who saved rage rap from eternal Carti pastiche?
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The pastiche of influences is what makes Noel’s work exciting.
    — Vogue, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Today, those images could be scattered across games and movies, in jumbled pastiches of the real thing.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Early on, of course, the Strokes and their peers earned those same critiques, their sound a knowing pastiche of past alt and indie icons.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Remarkably, a house that might have descended into kitschy pastiche never does.
    — Mark Lamster architecture Critic, Dallas Morning News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Cerf was the guy who mastered writing pastiche tunes that were different enough from the originals not to get sued, at least in most cases.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 24 Apr. 2021
  • While the twist at the end may turn off some viewers, the 1960s styling and pastiche of patriotism work well.
    — Rosa Escandon, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
  • This book is a stylish pastiche, as an unnamed woman fitfully reconstructs herself under the thumb of a strange man.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025

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