THEATRICAL in a Sentence

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I walked away slowly along the sunny side of the street, reading all the theatrical advertisements in the shopwindows as I went.

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 Meanings and Examples of THEATRICAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
theatrical
 a.  of or pertaining to theater, or to scenic representations; resembling manner of dramatic performers; histrionic; artificial
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  I walked away slowly along the sunny side of the street, reading all the theatrical advertisements in the shopwindows as I went.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE SISTERS
2  Mrs. Vane glanced at her, and with one of those false theatrical gestures that so often become a mode of second nature to a stage-player, clasped her in her arms.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
3  "My son, don't say such dreadful things," murmured Mrs. Vane, taking up a tawdry theatrical dress, with a sigh, and beginning to patch it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
4  It would have increased the theatrical picturesqueness of the situation.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
5  Human societies all have what is called in theatrical parlance, a third lower floor.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS
6  It thought it possessed strength because the Empire had been carried away before it like a theatrical stage-setting.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
7  Of theatrical people there were Gus Waize and Horace O'Donavan and Lester Meyer and George Duckweed and Francis Bull.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
8  IN LINCOLN THE BEST part of the theatrical season came late, when the good companies stopped off there for one-night stands, after their long runs in New York and Chicago.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III
9  The geniality, as was the way of the man, was somewhat theatrical to the eye; but it reposed on genuine feeling.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
10  To be so near happiness, so near fame, so near the long paragraph in praise of the private theatricals at Ecclesford, the seat of the Right Hon.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  In a general light, private theatricals are open to some objections, but as we are circumstanced, I must think it would be highly injudicious, and more than injudicious to attempt anything of the kind.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
12  I shall always look back on our theatricals with exquisite pleasure.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
13  After the anecdote the conversation broke up into insignificant small talk about the last and next balls, about theatricals, and who would meet whom, and when and where.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
14  I have not seen him since we acted together at the Rumyantsovs' theatricals.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV
15  But if we did," Carol cautioned, "it would be awfully silly to have amateur theatricals.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence:
1  Still, he was sufficiently touched by his aunt's grief too long to rush out from under the bed and overwhelm her with joy--and the theatrical gorgeousness of the thing appealed strongly to his nature, too, but he resisted and lay still.
2  The aged matinee idol still had grandiose notions of his supposed importance in the theatrical world.
3  The theatrical company reprinted every plaudit of the critics in its advertisements.
4  A leading light of the American stage, Ethel Barrymore was a theatrical luminary whose name lives on.
5  I work in theatrical multimedia presentation, so I switch between platforms almost daily.
6  These are the prizes given for the most outstanding British theatrical performances of the year.
7  The final scene was dismayingly lacking in theatrical effect.
8  We had witnessed one of the most outstanding theatrical performances of the decade.
9  This could be mawkish but Cooper delivers his lines with a crispness and an expert theatrical timing that avoids over-statement.
10  Still, this effective theatrical ploy – so very Scandinavian and socially progressive – has achieved its goal: People have been talking, and various titles have been trotted out to shock and illuminate.