Sentence examples for travesty from high-quality English sources.

• The sale was an travesty at the time and still is.

• The rights group called the trial “a travesty of justice.”

• …an imitation of the French Virgile travesty (1648–53) by Paul Scarron.

• “The lack of passenger travel by train in this country is a travesty,” Edens says.

• Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” proclamation, it has the potential to be a travesty.

• A columnist at The Washington Post called the apology “a travesty and an embarrassment.”

• He added: “This would be a travesty for their generation but also for businesses across the UK.

• Pipelines would let this tar sands travesty continue longer, with our young people paying the price.

Use travesty in a sentence.

• It would be a travesty because all we want, and all boxing needs, is an undisputed heavyweight champion.

• Still, the boundaries between the literary senses of parody, burlesque, travesty, and pastiche are debatable.

• On 24 March, the verdict was delayed again, prompting Human Rights Watch to call the case a “travesty of justice”.

• He would require on-the-record evidence that the next Republican nominee “understands Roe to be the travesty that it is.”

• Fracking is a travesty for local democracy, bad news for the environment and our climate, and concerning for public health too.

• McGregor will be a travesty should not be too surprised when someone responds, not unreasonably, that the entire sport is a travesty.

• But so far the Duterte administration has always rejected allegations of wrongdoing and when the UN voted to launch its investigation, Manila branded the probe as a "travesty".

• His “Quixote” is not so much a translation as a travesty, and a travesty that for coarseness, vulgarity, and buffoonery is almost unexampled even in the literature of that day.

travesty sentence examples

• Moreover, it’s a bitch, because knowing too much robs you of the elemental pleasures of blind partisanship that defines the echt fan (and finds its hysterical apex in professional wrestling, a travesty of fanship that would evaporate if even rough shadings of Good vs.

• “It’s an incredible travesty, this sort of really crude and unsophisticated approach for dealing with what is a very serious issue,” said Jack Brouwer, an engineering professor and director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center at the University of California, Irvine.

• Following a meeting of Momentum's executive at which he is understood to have clashed with other senior figures backing the leadership's position, Mr Lansman denounced the process by which the NEC statement was finalised in a hurried round of emails on Sunday as “a travesty”.

• Mr Khan said: "The fact that the Metropolitan Police and the individual officers have made applications for anonymity and, more importantly, that they have been granted, is a travesty and goes against everything that a public inquiry stands for and what Baroness Lawrence expected.