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Example sentences for "skits"

Lexicographically close words:
skirted; skirting; skirts; skis; skit; skittered; skittering; skittish; skittle; skittles
  1. I returned to my seat and watched the skits which were on the theme of ecology.

  2. These prose skits show the neat irony that Punch was willing to encourage by attaching du Maurier to the literary, as well as to the artistic, staff.

  3. Among the useful skits of du Maurier was that upon the conceited young man concealing appalling ignorance with the display of a still more appalling indifference to everything.

  4. From the day Henry Irving first landed in New York until Field's pen was laid aside forever the actor's physical peculiarities and vocal idiosyncrasies were the constant theme of diverting skits and life-like vocal mimicry.

  5. Many of the skits he conceives have the same format as "straight" news items, but have been twisted by his imagination into something outrageous.

  6. He must get some of the hated skits ready for the Sunday paper from which he drew a hand-to-mouth living.

  7. They were nights when he worked feverishly, bitterly at the jokes and skits that were at once his bread and butter and the bane of his soul.

  8. The skits were done in dialogue, song and dance, and the various forms of burlesque.

  9. The whole evening was devoted to skits directed at the ministry, at the food administration, at the scandals in the interior department and the deputies, at the high taxes and the profiteering of the munition makers.

  10. Janet also learned that Rachel was writing in addition to her acting and that she had had several of her skits produced on the air.

  11. But she sells some of her radio skits free lance," insisted Janet.

  12. Withal, he had just enough of serious purpose to give much of his work a certain measure of cohesive unity, and thus impress it on the mind as no collection of random skits could do.

  13. From other contemporary pictorial skits by Seymour we learn that various changes were made in the royal establishment, and the new queen seems to have addressed herself specially to a reform in the dresses of the court domestics.

  14. He was ready, moreover, to execute woodcuts for a song-book or the political skits of any scribbler of his time, whether on the ministerial or the popular side mattered little to him.

  15. One of Paulding's innumerable skits was "The History of Uncle Sam and his Boys: a Tale for Politicians," originally published in the New York Mirror in 1831.

  16. Besides these books, political skits (written largely in Biblical language) were not uncommon in the newspapers.


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