VAUDEVILLE in a Sentence

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Beside the vaudeville aspirants, another group, which was also taking advantage of the uproar to talk low, was discussing a duel.

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 Meanings and Examples of VAUDEVILLE
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vaudeville
 n.  a variety show with songs and comic acts etc.
Classic Sentence:
1  Near Grantaire, an almost silent table, a sheet of paper, an inkstand and a pen between two glasses of brandy, announced that a vaudeville was being sketched out.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
2  Beside the vaudeville aspirants, another group, which was also taking advantage of the uproar to talk low, was discussing a duel.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
3  He had played in vaudeville at Saint-Mihiel.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASS...
4  Impossible to conceal ourselves inside it without the artists seeing us, and then they will get off simply by countermanding the vaudeville.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ...
5  Even Raymie lost his simple faith, and tried to show that he could do a vaudeville shuffle.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  This altogether admirable tradition rules the vaudeville stage, facetious illustrators, and syndicated newspaper humor, but out of actual life it passed forty years ago.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
7  Suffering would be out of place in vaudevilles, for instance; I know that.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: IX
8  I've written a number of vaudevilles, you know.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
9  And she hummed scraps of vaudevilles, as though she had been alone, frolicsome refrains which her hoarse and guttural voice rendered lugubrious.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A ROSE IN MISERY
10  The theatres open their doors and present vaudevilles; the curious laugh and chat a couple of paces distant from these streets filled with war.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS
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