How to Use travesty in a Sentence

travesty

noun
  • It is a travesty and a tragedy that so many people would be denied the right to vote.
  • The trial was a travesty of justice.
  • Right there out in the open, not even trying to hide the travesty.
    — Sterling Holywhitemountain, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
  • There are still Basquiat doubters who think that’s a travesty.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 June 2026
  • And that, sir, is a travesty for which you must be held accountable.
    — Breanna Bell, Variety, 9 June 2023
  • Twenty-plus years ago, this travesty would not have occurred.
    — Orange County Register, 22 Feb. 2017
  • Diving is a footballing travesty which has been ignored for far too long.
    — SI.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • The fact that no one voted for Brad Stevens as coach of the year is a travesty.
    — Frankie Prijatel, NOLA.com, 11 May 2018
  • Such a travesty, half a million Haitians have nowhere to return to.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 27 Nov. 2025
  • That, during times of such travesty, the world can still move in the right direction.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2020
  • While this is truly a travesty, the police can’t do anything about this.
    — Fox News, 5 June 2019
  • All these issues are putting fireflies at risk, and to lose them would be a travesty, the experts said.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2022
  • By the season’s end, in fact, more than a few travesties are laid at Peter’s feet.
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The broadcast team tried to wring a narrative from this travesty.
    — Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Ah, but therein lies the beauty — or for some people, the travesty — of the third wild-card team.
    — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Congress ought to look into this travesty and start a program to right this unjust wrong.
    — Cincinnati.com, 7 June 2017
  • Hardly a travesty, but not what a 5-star guest might be accustomed to.
    — Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The fact the record was snubbed from the 2021 Grammys is a travesty.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 15 Dec. 2020
  • The travesty that has ensued is that so many Americans reject that right and the man who stands by it.
    — Marcos Bretón, sacbee, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The Hall of Fame wouldn’t even recognize it, which was a real travesty.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Many trans activists denounced the ruling as a travesty, or even a denial of the right of trans people to exist.
    — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2020
  • Ross likened the construction to the Berlin Wall, calling it a travesty.
    — Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2023
  • But the fact that the mainstream is only catching on to the truth five decades after the fact is its own kind of travesty — and call to action.
    — Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Oct. 2021
  • This is not the first time Japanese commuters have had to deal with a truly egregious train travesty.
    — Gabriella Paiella, The Cut, 17 May 2018
  • The fact that this Dua Lipa album came out with everyone locked in the house is a travesty.
    — Neha Prakash, Marie Claire, 15 Mar. 2021
  • But the way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace.
    — William Earl, Variety, 5 Apr. 2026
  • And of course most responsible for this travesty, though, of all these delays and all the foot dragging, are the Democrats.
    — Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
  • This is a travesty and a heartbreaking disaster.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 May 2026
  • All of which, to those who sensed the explosive charge of the earlier Elvis, is a travesty, a tragedy, and a kind of creative death.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 June 2022
  • In the midst of trillion-dollar bailouts, the crushing debt saddling the younger generation is a travesty.
    — WSJ, 12 May 2021

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