Example sentences for: knock-off

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

  • Bubbly Chubbies must be destroyed because they're a knock-off of Teletubbies.

  • It is known for its inexpensive (but well-made) knock-off designer goods.

  • Of course he calls his knock-off the WidgetBuster, a much snappier moniker, and he packages the product behind a picture of a widget inside a barred red circle.

  • Movie reviewers echo the music critics' pans of the popular Spice Girls and conclude that "sometimes the Zeitgeist counts for squat" (David Kronke, the Los Angeles Times ). The group's feature film, in which they're harassed by a tabloid reporter, is trashed as a "plotless, pointless, mirthless" knock-off of the Beatles' Hard Day's Night (Richard Harrington, the Washington Post ). The pop stars do get credit for exhibiting self-deprecating humor and apparent awareness that "they have achieved ludicrous measures of fame and fortune on the strength of markedly limited talents" (Anthony Lane, The New Yorker ). (Clips are available.)

  • But any moron can produce a Tarantino knock-off or a bit of Italian dreck and call it an art house masterpiece.


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