How to Use sight gag in a Sentence

sight gag

noun
  • Among Thieves is one of the best sight gags of the year so far.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 29 Mar. 2023
  • In one of the film’s best sight gags, a chicken shows them the way.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The sight gags were funny, and suitably weird.
    — Michael Tedder, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2025
  • This is the same episode with the fork through the patient’s nose, which is such a great sight gag.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
  • But were the bracelets real, or just a sight gag for a political video?
    — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Mar. 2017
  • Why treat the eagle attack on Bug as a jump scare instead of a sight gag?
    — cleveland, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Though larded with audacious jokes and sight gags, the play had a strong emotive core.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Seeing this gruff, grizzled legend wield two colorful pipes was its own sight gag.
    — Photographs By Nina Westervelt, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The jokes and sight gags come hard and fast, and if a few fail to land, no matter—there are plenty of other laughs to be had.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2019
  • While such sight gags amuse, the movie is so wedded to its genre that no part of it seems rooted in reality.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Based on the titular board game, this camp classic is jam-packed with puns, sight gags, and silly antics.
    — Samantha Allen, Them, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Your filmography’s full of great visual humor, sight gags, things like that.
    — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 5 July 2018
  • This makes the hard cut to her passed out in the passenger seat an especially funny sight gag.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 5 Feb. 2023
  • All are male, except for a single female character brought on for a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it sight gag.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Switcheroo is all snappy disco, clownish house, and musical sight gags.
    — Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Why are warm moments upended by sight gags involving props being thrown and caught across the stage?
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 10 June 2019
  • Bits of dialog are typed out; sight gags are turned into GIFs.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 11 May 2020
  • Her performance is among the strongest, propelled by an iconic outfit and great sight gags.
    — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 10 May 2018
  • And, at its most elemental, South Park is founded on a sight gag with legs.
    — Chris Norris, SPIN, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Dreams here are neither hazy nor surreal (give or take a few whimsical sight gags throughout).
    — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 10 July 2025
  • There are not as many where the humor feels baked into the set design, where the sight gags are more notable than the one-liners.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 16 July 2024
  • Schein directs the show with tongue firmly planted in cheek, so there are many amusing sight gags (like an atrocious comb-over wig).
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The station becomes a success, with all sorts of hilarious sight gags and wacky humor.
    — Houston Chronicle, 25 July 2019
  • The plot is just a format for ceaseless one-liners, sight gags and cartoonish characters.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Throughout is a running sight gag — Baby Monkey trying to get on his pants.
    — Susan Faust, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2018
  • Her favorite memory was a sight gag of her kissing Matt LeBlanc.
    — Marc Malkin, Variety, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The certain sight gag of piloting a virtual goose around gives way to the nuisance of piloting a goose around.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Big sight gags are fine, but if there's the slightest doubt that something pushes too far in an effort to get noticed, err on the side of caution.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 2 Feb. 2020
  • The writing is alternately wry and outlandish, delivering jokes and sight gags at a rapid clip.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 22 May 2018
  • Ian asking Poppy to take care of his rings leads to a nice sight gag of David dressed as Ian to channel his mind-set.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 7 May 2021

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