How to Use vaudeville in a Sentence

vaudeville

noun
Definition of vaudevillenext
  • Comedy shorts have played the role of the new vaudeville for years now.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2023
  • Travel back in time with Olde Wrestling and vaudeville duo, Pinch and Squeal.
    — cleveland.com, 2 May 2018
  • 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
  • Then the Palm Springs Follies, the big vaudeville review, took it over for 23 years.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The event will happen June 24-25, and carry a vaudeville theme.
    — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Why does the sweeping descent look fit for the opening night of a vaudeville show?
    — Steve Annear, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • When the theaters of Playhouse Square opened 101 years ago, they were used for movies and vaudeville shows.
    — cleveland, 25 Mar. 2022
  • All the musical numbers in the stage play are all vaudeville turns.
    — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2022
  • With the end of World War I, the Roaring ‘20s were starting to echo and vaudeville was flourishing.
    — Thor Christensen, Dallas News, 9 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Opened as a vaudeville house in 1915, the theater now hosts live performances and movies.
    — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • With theaters shuttered, Groom built the vaudeville stage from scratch.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 29 July 2022
  • As Judy got older, her mother brought her to vaudeville clubs and the Chicago World’s Fair.
    — refinery29.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • The show is about comic Bert Williams, one of the giants of America’s vaudeville stage.
    — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The saucy blues singer and vaudeville star Sophie Tucker was raised in Hartford.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Vidiots' future home opened as a vaudeville stage in May 1929 as The Yosemite Theatre.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2019
  • A century ago, as the West Rock Theater, the venue offered silent movies and vaudeville acts.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 26 June 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • On that evening’s opening-night bill were the vaudeville acts Fanchon & Marco and the Sunkist Beauties.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2023
  • In his youth, Dempsey joined a vaudeville troupe and rode a unicycle while juggling.
    — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The Modjeska opened in 1925 and was used for films and vaudeville performances.
    — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2023
  • An eclectic blend of songs, ranging in style from pop to vaudeville, is employed as the story of Jesus’ life dances across the stage.
    — baltimoresun.com, 6 Sep. 2021
  • From the age of 4, Reddy joined her parents as a performer on the Australian vaudeville circuit.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • After Jokic brushed against him — yes, brushed — while attempting a pass, James broke out the vaudeville.
    — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 1 June 2023
  • The National Theatre opened as a vaudeville theater and later showed films for a time, before switching to burlesque shows with live music, according to a detailed history of the building on HistoricDetroit.org.
    — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 31 Jan. 2024

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