FARCE in a Sentence

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For FARCE, below is one of 13 sentences:
It was like a Whitehall farce the way I was sent from department to department and everyone said it was someone else's job to help me.

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 Meanings and Examples of FARCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
farce
 n.  broad comedy; ridiculous parade; foolish show
Classic Sentence:
1  Again, amongst other things, Tientietnikov conceived the idea of establishing a school for his people; but the scheme resulted in a farce which left him in sackcloth and ashes.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
2  They all helped one another with humorous attentiveness, as though they had all agreed to rehearse a sort of artless farce.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
3  He ranges boldly from high comedy to farce.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS
4  Its gayety is of the thunder and its farce holds a sceptre.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—TO SCOFF, TO REIGN
5  We must play the farce to the end.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners.
6  It was for her sake I went through that farce.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 20
7  If they were allowed their own way, every comedy would have a tragic ending, and every tragedy would culminate in a farce.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
Example Sentence:
1  The trial was a mere farce.
2  The whole procedure has become a complete farce.
3  It was like a Whitehall farce the way I was sent from department to department and everyone said it was someone else's job to help me.
4  The play suddenly changes from farce to tragedy.
5  Nothing went right; the entire interview degenerated into a farce.
6  It was political theatre: epic for some, farce for others and tragic for many more; the Catalan parliament voted today, October 27th, to declare independence and constitute Catalonia as a republic.