Example sentences for: mockery

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

  • The Algonquian tribes called the first white settlers Coat-wearers in gentle mockery of the stranger's curious garb.

  • The result: a farce, a mockery of discourse, an embarrassment to the press secretary and the press corps.

  • Since there was no mockery in the Rugrats depiction of the Kaddish-- just one toddler's curiosity -- one can only conclude the callers deemed the comic strip, as a medium, insufficiently dignified for serious Jewish subjects.

  • The mockery of human integrity, every ethical obligation destroyed."

  • Safire preaches his immovable conviction "that casino operators are predators; that state-sponsored lotteries make a mockery of public policy; that politicians who are on the take from gambling interests are wallowing in the occasion of sin."


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