Example sentences for: mocking

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

  • An essay accompanying the year-end photo roundup labels this the "Show Us You Care" year, mocking the outpourings of feeling at Di's funeral, at the Promise Keepers rally, and on countless talk shows.

  • Some critics are fascinated by the new possibilities opened up by this license and call the film "one of the more original movies of the year" (David Denby, New York ). Others are uneasy about the intimate, sad, and somewhat mocking portraits that emerge of these deeply flawed and lonely individuals and call the film "depressing and undeniably cruel" (Anita Gates, the New York Times ). (Read Slate 's David Edelstein on Barker's quest for "larger dramatic truths."

  • And whatever Gore does to try to correct these flaws, whether it's playing along by mocking himself or trying to demonstrate his authenticity and ordinary-guy-ness, only digs the hole deeper.

  • Dole could never have predicted that in this, his grimmest hour, after all these years of morosely pursuing the presidency, he would come to enjoy as his particular friend a chronically cheery former footballer who could broadcast an enthusiasm for gimcrack economic theory in such a way that one could not tell if he was embracing it or mocking it.

  • "A sound and light show mocking the beliefs of Hindus, Buddhists, and Muslims."


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