Example Sentences

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However, we recorded Scott-Wright saying that back-sleeping advice was "one of the biggest travesties of modern-day parenting".

From BBC • May 5, 2026

But if they wanted to ditch him for anything, he had nine months of cataclysmic travesties behind him, any one of which could have brought about his downfall.

From Salon • Oct. 5, 2023

“That even extends to works that address historical travesties that may have been commonplace.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2023

In the replies, members of this mixed civilian and military audience are all in on the joke, gleefully picking apart these design travesties.

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2023

Most of us are forced to drink our travesties straight and smile about it.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates