Example sentences for: parody

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

  • Some 40 readers responded to the last "Good Word" column, on yadda yadda yadda . Two of them, Steve Gelmis and Martin Zacks, independently remembered the expression from a Lenny Bruce routine, which itself was a parody of dialogue in a prison movie.

  • It's pretty hard to parody a parody.

  • One of the most telling and effective exposés of the entrenched nature of sexism in language is Douglas Hofstaedter's pseudonymous parody “A person paper on purity in language,” written as a supposed debunking of “silly prattle” about racist language.

  • She seems to enjoy it, and I may yet be in the mood to read a movie parody called "Star Drech."

  • The prose in this "literary violation" reads "like a parody of Hemingway" (Deirdre Donahue, USA Today ). It "reflects a marvelous writer's disastrous loss of talent" (Kenneth S. Lynn, National Review ); a "sad, bloated, inert so-called book" (L.S.


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