Example sentences for: parody

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

  • But the story of what happened to Maytag, or more precisely the story of how Wall Street reacted to what happened to Maytag, is such a clear illustration of the Street's conviction that there's nothing wrong with inside information as to be almost a parody.

  • It won't work, not even as parody.

  • Saturday Night Live may be in the doldrums, Mad magazine may have outlived its usefulness, but parody thrives in the form of the Christian T-shirt.

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

  • 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."


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