Example sentences for: satirical

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

  • Tony Blair, back from vacation to try to weld together his fractured and scandal-riven government, was mocked in the Christmas issue of the satirical magazine Private Eye for publishing so many articles in newspapers.

  • Once the design was released, the name bruin was suggested by many people, but the name that appears to be winning is doubloonie, combining the double loonie with a reference to a traditional coin said to be favoured by pirates—again, a not-too-subtle satirical reference to the appetite for taxation of most governments.

  • A long time ago, when I was doing a satirical news show at a rock station in Los Angeles, they bought an analog tape machine with a rotating head, the premise being that it wouldn't change the pitch of records, but would slyly speed them up to make room for--more commercials.

  • A literary critic's biography of the 18 th -century satirical English painter wins praise for "bringing [her] subject and his milieu alive" (Bruce Cook, the Washington Post Book World ). The critics accept Uglow's revisionist claim that Hogarth's famous moralizing was accompanied by a prurient fixation on sex.

  • Bulworth might be white, but at heart he's supposed to be a real nigger . The movie's satirical vision never extends to its hero.


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