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Example sentences for: spoofs
How can you use “spoofs” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
"[T]hink of a Friday the 13 th as written by Eugene Ionesco and Luigi Pirandello" (Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post ). Critics enjoy Craven's self-knowing winks (a film within the film spoofs the original Scream ). Some find the self-consciousness over the top.
Reviews praise Guffman 's spoofs of show tunes and its digs at Midwestern life, but rate it a notch below the cult classic.
In his essay “The Awful German Language,” Mark Twain spoofs the confusion engendered by German gender by translating from a conversation in a German Sunday school book:
Iggy's Stooges The Ig Nobel Prizes, spoofs on the Nobel Prizes that honor both genuine and phony research, were handed out this month.
There is, for example, a piece on spoofs in which Rose cites several that are well known, omits others (like Poe's The Great Balloon Hoax), and includes at least one that is a satire, which is a different sort of animal: Gulliver's Travels is not, to my mind, a spoof.
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