Example sentences for: self-mocking

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

  • He has played self-mocking parts in Wayne's World 2 and Bud Light ads.

  • But the main reason Glass spoofed everybody's radar is that his stories were, in the self-mocking journalists' phrase "too good to check."

  • "She's a time-traveling Manhattan Yankee in Plautus's forum, using her distinctive street smarts to find her way, both as a character and as a performer" (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ). Goldberg's self-mocking approach is said to redeem the production from an otherwise overwrought book.

  • What would be a mundane announcement on radio--"The electric car is here"--becomes on television a compelling, self-mocking event.

  • Responding to such questions, McCain always smiles, thanks his interrogators, praises his opponents, and deflects the challenge with a self-mocking joke.


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