Sample Sentences for
parody
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  • "Just you wait—" Jack mimicked the whine and scramble. ... Piggy and the parody were so funny that the hunters began to laugh.  (source)
    parody = a humorous, exaggerated imitation of somebody's style
  • They had been standing in the traditional pose of fighters, gloves raised, ready for battle but a pathetic parody of professional fighters.  (source)
    parody = very poor imitation
  • It was a feminine voice but not hers. A parody of a girl's voice.  (source)
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  • But there's no such thing as a timeless parody, is there?  (source)
    parody = a funny, exaggerated imitation of somebody's style
  • Some even wrote parodies of my poem, reading them to me in the hopes of getting under my skin.  (source)
    parodies = humorous, exaggerated imitations of somebody's style
  • EDMUND Scornfully parodying his brother's cynicism.†  (source)
  • All these young men parodied her husband, she reflected; he said it would rain; they said it would be a positive tornado.†  (source)
  • Whattypically takes place is that we recognize elements from some prior text and begin drawing comparisons and parallels that may be fantastic, parodic, tragic, anything.†  (source)
  • Encouraged, the guard threw herself into a parody of Betsie's faltering walk.†  (source)
  • It was almost perfect, just a fraction flatter and shakier than Betty Jean's voice had been, the o's and ah's parodies of Betty Jean's...  (source)
    parodies = a humorous, exaggerated imitation of somebody's style
  • "Bravi, bravo, brava!" cried Morcerf, parodying the banker, as the selection came to an end.†  (source)
  • When the monster's detractors cited a saying by the botanist Linnaeus that "nature doesn't make leaps," witty writers in the popular periodicals parodied it, maintaining in essence that "nature doesn't make lunatics," and ordering their contemporaries never to give the lie to nature by believing in krakens, sea serpents, "Moby Dicks," and other all—out efforts from drunken seamen.†  (source)
  • Promise me you won't spend the rest of your life stuck around this bloody parody of a place mat.†  (source)
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