travestyin a sentence
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No possible way for this latest travesty to end up in the press.† (source)
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Surely such a travesty has never occurred.† (source)
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I am a travesty, in bad make-up and someone else's clothes, used glitz.† (source)
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The snake, on the other hand, was curled up on the rotting hearth rug, like some horrible travesty of a pet dog.† (source)
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No pikes, too few bowmen, a bare handful of knights, the ill-armed and unarmored, commanded by an unthinking brute who led with his rage ...how could his father expect this travesty of a battle to hold his left: He had no time to think about it.† (source)
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He couldn't have imagined what a travesty Owen Meany's absence would make of the commencement exercises that year—how such a timid, rather plain, and much-ignored student, who was the replacement valedictorian of our class, would find the courage to offer as a valedictory only these words: "I am not the head of this class.† (source)
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Archery was an even bigger travesty.† (source)
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Accursed is the mutant... The mutant, the enemy, not only of the human race, but of all the species God had decreed; the seed of the Devil within, trying unflaggingly, eternally to come to fruition in order that it might destroy the divine order and turn our land, the stronghold of God's will upon Earth, into a lewd chaos like the Fringes; trying to make it a place without the law, like the lands in the South that Uncle Axel had spoken of, where the plants and the animals and the almost-human beings, too, brought forth travesties; where true stock had given place to unnameable creatures, abominable growths flourished, and the spirits of evil mocked the Lord with obscene fantasies.† (source)
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It was revolting to hear his mother travestied into Esmiss Esmoor, a Hindu goddess.† (source)
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I saw Grandma's satire in him, across the plaited white bread and the sprigged fish and candles—yes, the old woman's hardness of invention and travestying savagery, even certain Russian screams.† (source)
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I have to think it's a travesty.† (source)
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None but church-goers seemed abroad that morning; undergraduates and graduates and wives and tradespeople, walking with that unmistakable English church-going pace which eschewed equally both haste and idle sauntering; holding, bound in black lamb-skin and white celluloid, the liturgies of half a dozen conflicting sects; on their way to St. Barnabas, St. Columba, St. Aloysius, St. Mary's, Pusey House, Blackfriars, and heaven knows where besides; to restored Norman and revived Gothic, to travesties of Venice and Athens; all in the summer sunshine going to the temples of their race.† (source)
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Was putting up a memorial for him a tragedy or a travesty?† (source)
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That I remain here despite these travesties of the culinary art, I trust you will recognize as a measure of my true devotion to the cause of science.† (source)
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They came directly home, sobered by the travesty in which they had participated.† (source)
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Many had grabbed the lighted candles from the mess tables, and we moved by the candlelight toward the mansion where the General, an inhuman figure to most of us, a man we thought of as immune from the travesties of history, sat with his wife and the now eternal absence of a son who had died in Asia.† (source)
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