Example sentences for: satire

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

  • In another series, , she exhibited rotting fish decorated with beads and sequins, supposedly to "create a biting satire on women's servitude in a male-dominated culture," according to the exhibition catalog.

  • (For a head start on the satire, check out the work of Slate necro-economists and .) But the true import of the new "death penalty" is the demise of the old one.

  • A screwball political satire about a senator (played by Beatty) who loses his senses and begins to babble the truth on the stump, the film has a kamikaze comic spirit that's spectacularly disarming, particularly coming from its hitherto overcautious auteur--not to mention a major studio owned by right-of-Attila Rupert Murdoch.

  • And yuppies are too ripe for satire to be branded as evil.

  • Parker and Stone (and screenplay collaborator Pam Brady) have concocted nothing less than an 80-minute Swiftian epic--a ribald, hyperbolic satire of the notion that movies "warp our fragile little minds."


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