Example sentences for: sendup

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

  • It's a sendup of the old model, but in a different way than, say, Hustler was, and the difference (surprise) reflects the sexual culture of the '90s.

  • The title of his sendup of abstract expressionism, Painting with Two Balls (1960)--and there they are, squeezed forlornly between two big panels of drips and brushstrokes--is about as explicit as Johns ever gets.

  • Critics disagree on the merits of this sendup of academia starring Richard Dreyfuss.

  • Critics applaud Russo's sendup of life at a small western Pennsylvania college, in which an English professor loses his job, becomes unhinged, commandeers a local TV station, and threatens to murder a goose.

  • That's a trick question, because her best performance, in Basic Instinct (1992), was essentially a comic turn--a lusty, glittery-eyed sendup of film noir femmes fatales . Here she starts promisingly, looking odd and imposing in her caftans, childishly impervious to the absurdity of her demands.


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