Example sentences for: parody

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

  • A Hungarian (Sandor Szavost) who whirls Alice around on the dance floor while purring suave come-ons is like Dracula out of a Mel Brooks parody, and Kidman's giggly responses (she's supposed to be drunk) recall Melanie Griffith at her most airheaded.

  • An essay on rape reads almost like a parody of the substitution of economic for moral reasoning.

  • Some dismiss Amis' use of police lingo and his intricate story about a suicide investigation as bad parody.

  • I often wonder how the Goths fare who have a parody of the Christian fish on their cars with horns and the name Satan.

  • Satan's big number, a malicious piece of parody that's one of the funniest movie moments of the year, is a power ballad for a Broadway crowd--imagine an Andrew Lloyd Webber number written for Meat Loaf or, worse, Michael Bolton.


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