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Example sentences for "caricatures"

Lexicographically close words:
cariage; cariages; caribou; caricature; caricatured; caricaturing; caricaturist; caricaturists; carico; carid
  1. His experiences of the place are recorded in a letter to his school-fellow Wilhelm Kolberg, and consist mainly of approval of the scenery, criticisms of the visitors, and caricatures of the local band.

  2. I invariably end by drawing imaginary caricatures of my correspondent and fail to reply.

  3. Parliamentary caricatures was a sketch of Mr. Henry Broadhurst, the deservedly popular representative of the working classes.

  4. A clever young Guardsman, who had a taste for turning, worked this out in wood from my caricatures of Mr. Gladstone, and I advised his having it reproduced in pottery.

  5. I have even known artists so anxious to be parodied that, if they happened to have a vein of humour in their pencils, they would actually send me caricatures of their own pictures.

  6. Illustration] "I suppose sometimes you find caricatures ready-made, Mr. Pencil?

  7. In this case it took the shape of my caricatures of the Royal Academy, 1889.

  8. The ladies got a birdseye view of his caricatures in progress.

  9. Personally, I have no objection to being caricatured--I frequently make caricatures of myself.

  10. They seem to have made caricatures of him, piquing themselves, no doubt, upon the durability of the marble in which they worked.

  11. Caricatures and pamphlets became grosser every week, the press more strident and hysterical.

  12. Caricatures in Piccadilly shops represented him as a cripple leading the blindfolded Kings of Europe, or as a trainer leading a monkey dressed in the livery of the new French monarchy.

  13. Caricatures are not less so, because they are found existing in real life.

  14. My mother's and Mr. Walpole's recollections and descriptions were like seeing a set of historical caricatures pass before one.

  15. She drew and painted well, as did her sister Pauline Viardot, whose spirited caricatures of her friends, and herself were admirable specimens both of likenesses and of humorous talent in delineating them.

  16. That I have become a conceited ass, and fancy that because I used to be extravagantly fond of modeling all manner of absurdities in clay, and cutting caricatures of my friends in meerschaum--this I hope you will not believe.

  17. When you haven't a pair of shears and some black paper at hand, you cut your caricatures out of the air with your sharp tongue.

  18. Many of the things he attacks are almost unrecognizable caricatures of modern religious views.

  19. He picks up his church history from infidel pamphleteers[8] and recklessly caricatures Christian beliefs.

  20. But when, later on, Punch work came to Mr. Hamerton, the Spooner caricatures were dropped.

  21. Prince Consort took Punch's humours in very good part, and made a large collection of the caricatures of the day, in the belief that in them alone could the true position of a public man be recognised.

  22. Lord Beaconsfield took an interest in all the caricatures that appeared of him, and at the time he died he had several hundreds in his possession.

  23. He was an old hand at pictorial satire, and was one of those who drew the little caricatures in "Figaro in London" several years before.

  24. This was emphasised by some of the best caricatures he ever produced.

  25. But for a second it struck me that by some mischance he might be showing the caricatures in place of the serious portraits.

  26. I passed a solemn resolution that I would pour all the contents of the cruets down his cursed throat and make hideous caricatures of him all over the wine list!

  27. The fact is that for many years I was mistaken in the country, particularly in Liverpool, Leeds and Bradford, for an artist who signed political caricatures "H.

  28. Perhaps no one has seen more caricatures than I have, but I have never seen a caricature by a woman.

  29. She had not revenged herself on Nature by making hideous caricatures of Nature's face; she did not draw in milk-and-water colors, and she did not strum.

  30. In England one of the earliest caricatures extant is that in the margin of the Forest Roll of Essex, 5, ed.

  31. Gould is an avowed partisan, and his caricatures became the most formidable weapons of the Radical party.

  32. He has a Rabelaisian complacency and skill in making a portrait magnificently repulsive, and his caricatures are a vivid example of the school of cartoonists who believe in slashing rather than merely prodding or tickling the object of attack.

  33. In Royal Academy Antics (1890) he published a volume of caricatures of the work of leading artists.

  34. Punch, where his political caricatures became a popular feature.

  35. With admirable nonchalance, she takes her own time to obey, and commences drawing little caricatures of the master, which she places in her shoe, and passes round under the desk, to her more demure petticoat neighbors.

  36. Milde is busy on his caricatures to "Norway's Dawn.

  37. He had really drawn a few very funny caricatures and made ruinous fun of the impossible poem.

  38. It is like the gross caricatures of Harper’s Magazine.

  39. Besides these last, the Weekly generally has one or more caricatures calculated to disseminate the worst falsehoods, and to excite hatred towards Catholics and contempt for their religion.

  40. In many of the caricatures made on this occasion, which are usually woodcut illustrations to books written against the reformer, Luther is represented dancing with Catherine de Bora, or sitting at table with a glass in his hand.

  41. Most of the other caricatures of the time are poor both in design and execution.

  42. Copies of seven of these caricatures are accordingly given at the end of the volume, which are certainly inferior in every respect to those of the best period of Romain de Hooghe.

  43. Our first group of these pigmy caricatures (No.

  44. Examples of his caricatures upon Hogarth have already been given, sufficient to show that they display skill in composition as well as a large amount of wit and humour.

  45. The number of caricatures published at this period was very great, and they were almost all aimed in one direction, against Bute and Fox, the Princess of Wales, and the government they directed.

  46. Mr. Aytoun has adorned the margins with notes and with caricatures of skulls and cross-bones, while the fly-leaves bear a sonnet to the author, and a lyric in doggerel.

  47. I was to do the caricatures of all things.

  48. In Dolores he caricatures him wittily and mercilessly in the person of the poet "Waller.

  49. How, then, does Mr Knapps account for not producing those caricatures of mine, which he says he has collected for a whole month?

  50. Mr Knapps told the Dominie that I drew caricatures of my school-fellows.

  51. Some of their caricatures on their enemies were very clever.

  52. The sober second thought of the country had rather sickened people of that sort of thing; still, there was quite enough of it, especially as shown in caricatures and songs.

  53. When the last cheer was dying, Mr. Dempster closed the window, and the judiciously-instructed placards and caricatures moved off in divers directions, followed by larger or smaller divisions of the crowd.

  54. I admit that this was very hard on the cousin, but why should I spare the young jackanapes, from whom no mercy for others was to be expected, as his caricatures showed plainly enough?

  55. On the first glance at the paper, she seemed about to burst into a fit of laughter, and no one who had seen these capital caricatures of Damon could have blamed the child of nature for doing so.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caricatures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.