Example sentences for: mockery

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

  • So is this Mach 3 an improvement or a mockery of consumer gullibility?

  • In George Orwell's 1938 novel Coming up for Air , the protagonist muses on how years of such mockery transform a man:

  • Of late, that whole phenomenon has been the subject of considerable mockery, along the lines of "Remember when we thought we should emulate Japan?

  • The golden rule has to be that, if there is a historically valid source, it is to be preferred unless the circumstantial evidence makes a mockery of it.

  • Miss Norman said the remark, which she insists she never made, held her up to ridicule, mockery, and contempt, and conformed to a "degrading racist stereotype of a person of African-American heritage."


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