Example sentences for: parody

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

  • Click here to see Jacob Weisberg's parody, here to read Culturebox's defense, and here to read a roundup of critical responses.)

  • Cornfield has also proposed a national government directory of official candidate Web sites, to help steer voters away from parody sites.

  • 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.

  • Defenders call it a "largely episodic collection of great moments that aren't all causally linked in that comforting way we're used to" (Yahlin Chang, Newsweek ). Tom Wolfe, who attacked the book in the literary magazine Biblio on the basis of its title--without having read a word of the manuscript--draws a stinging retort from Kirn in the latest issue of Tin House , in which he writes a lovely parody of a negative review for his own book: "I consider it my duty as the author of this offensive work, to carry even further Wolfe's condemnation in hopes of neutralizing, from the start, a potentially harmful literary contagion."

  • She's all blithe insouciance--a wonderful parody of proper English maidenhood straining to burst its corsets and grab a piece of jungle hunk.


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