How to Use vaudeville in a Sentence

vaudeville

noun
  • She became a big star in vaudeville.
  • Comedy shorts have played the role of the new vaudeville for years now.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2023
  • On the venue’s small stage, two men performed a vaudeville-style slapstick show.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • Her dog and triplet sisters with a life on the vaudeville stage are her best hopes of bringing him home.
    — Barry Levitt, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Her dog and triplet sisters with a life on the vaudeville stage are her best hopes of bringing him home.
    — Barry Levitt, Vulture, 31 May 2024
  • Why does the sweeping descent look fit for the opening night of a vaudeville show?
    — Steve Annear, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2021
  • All the musical numbers in the stage play are all vaudeville turns.
    — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Working with Disney taught me how to be vaudeville.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2026
  • With theaters shuttered, Groom built the vaudeville stage from scratch.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 29 July 2022
  • In that time, the theater operated as a vaudeville house with stage shows and short films.
    — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 31 July 2024
  • In addition to films, the stage was used as a live performance space for vaudeville acts.
    — Monica Garske, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026
  • His father was in vaudeville, and, as a result, so was Sammy.
    — Questlove, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Trump was that hostile-jaunty guy in the big flappy suit, with the vaudeville hair, the pursed lips, and the glare.
    — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
  • Speaking of dancing and singing, Gypsy makes her way through the last days of vaudeville.
    — Philly.com, 28 May 2017
  • In the old days of vaudeville, there was a lot of dialect comedy, but now we're not allowed to do that.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 May 2024
  • Lippa’s score pays tribute to musical styles of that time, from hot jazz to vaudeville songs to gospel.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The brown, green and rust-colored shreds of algae made the beach look like the floor of a vaudeville dressing room at showtime.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2021
  • The good news was that lakefront land was cleared and cheap by the time Joe Keaton passed through town on a vaudeville tour.
    — Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Travel back in time with Olde Wrestling and vaudeville duo, Pinch and Squeal.
    — cleveland.com, 2 May 2018
  • My character, Clem, has a high gloss of vaudeville, which won’t work unless the whole show is very grounded.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Cole had given up just four hits and one run on 88 pitches before Boone brought out the vaudeville hook.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 26 Oct. 2024
  • For starters, there were a handful of old-timey vaudeville acts that, by 1948, had no place left to perform.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2025
  • His imitation of her reaction was pure vaudeville and had the girls in stitches.
    — Larry David, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Opened as a vaudeville house in 1915, the theater now hosts live performances and movies.
    — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The event will happen June 24-25, and carry a vaudeville theme.
    — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Apr. 2022
  • For the next four years, Peggy and her parents worked in vaudeville, then in its waning days before the rise of sound films.
    — Terence McArdle, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Was, by 13, working the vaudeville circuit, and that meant the burlesque houses.
    — Lili Anolik, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The theater, which opened in 1928 as a vaudeville stage, doesn't have a loading dock or parking lot.
    — Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2020
  • The saucy blues singer and vaudeville star Sophie Tucker was raised in Hartford.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Niagara Falls All Over Again, are two men who have made their fame as a vaudeville team.
    — Yiyun Li, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022

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