Example sentences for: parody

How can you use “parody” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Cornfield has also proposed a national government directory of official candidate Web sites, to help steer voters away from parody sites.

  • Defenders call it a "largely episodic collection of great moments that aren't all causally linked in that comforting way we're used to" (Yahlin Chang, Newsweek ). Tom Wolfe, who attacked the book in the literary magazine Biblio on the basis of its title--without having read a word of the manuscript--draws a stinging retort from Kirn in the latest issue of Tin House , in which he writes a lovely parody of a negative review for his own book: "I consider it my duty as the author of this offensive work, to carry even further Wolfe's condemnation in hopes of neutralizing, from the start, a potentially harmful literary contagion."

  • "[A] stunningly bad, sophomorically vulgar parody" (Jack Mathews, Newsday ). (Intended joke: Alan Smithee is the pseudonym used when a director removes his name from a film's credits.

  • "Christ Whitens Hearts, Freshens Lives"-- A skillful parody of the Crest toothpaste logo.

  • "If we don't take the lead, we're going to get hoisted on our own petards," says Sackett, apparently referring to the cottage industry in political parody Web sites.


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