Example sentences for: sendup

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

  • 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.

  • She's writing a sendup of Huckleberry Finn . The parallels are obvious.

  • 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.

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

  • Some critics bemoan Starship 's grotesque violence and glorification of a "happily fascist world" (Richard Schickel, Time ). Others consider it a witty sendup of action movies, with fabulous special effects and campy characters: "a cheerfully lobotomized, always watchable experience" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (See the official Starship Troopers site.)


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