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Example sentences for "clowning"

Lexicographically close words:
clovers; cloves; clowdes; clown; clownes; clownish; clowns; cloy; cloyed; cloying
  1. At every piece of clowning there was the same responsive gurgle of delight.

  2. Our music-hall performers have invented a kind of clowning peculiar to this country, in which kicking and leaping are also a part of the business.

  3. What I really would like to do is something fine and worth while, but not clowning in mere Buckeye comedies.

  4. Rather bondage to some Hollywood Gashwiler than clowning in Baird's infamies!

  5. And in the midst of all this obscene clowning there were three faces that haunted her—Wat the Tiler’s, Guy’s, and the face of Merlin the Priest.

  6. I’m in no mood for your clowning when the lords have made fools of us all.

  7. He swore like a wet cat, accused Mabel of being a spy, took away our basket of provisions, and I think would have shot Jeremy out of hand if Jeremy hadn't started clowning and made the other Frenchmen laugh.

  8. Clowning reached a golden age which passed away, never to return again.

  9. I got well, and took up my clowning again.

  10. To be a successful clown you had also to be a good pantomimist, because all clowning is really based on the pantomime.

  11. Like everything else in this busy world, clowning must be timely.

  12. It fits into my theory of clowning perfectly.

  13. But clowning is done out in the open air, where the winds of heaven blow about you!

  14. There are good and bad clowns, clowns with high ideals, and those who regard clowning merely as a means towards earning a livelihood.

  15. As I came to study clowning I found that it was a serious and difficult business.

  16. There are traces of this in the clowning of to-day.

  17. But I never expect to stop clowning as long as I am able to work.

  18. To be a good clown, even then, a man had to be a pretty good acrobat, because in his clowning he was called upon to do many arduous physical things.


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