Sample Sentences for
mock
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(editor-reviewed)

mock as in:  don't mock me

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    American's have a hard time understanding that to mock Islam is to invite violence.
    mock = make fun of
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    Abuses at Abu Ghraib made a mockery of American idealism.
    mockery = something that appears ridiculous
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    He's not trying to mock you, he's trying to be polite.  (source)
    mock = make fun of
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    "So Via has a boyfriend!" I said to Ella, kind of mocking.  (source)
    mocking = teasing (making fun)
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    And yet, this is something of a mockery because of her lack of maternal instincts or the ability to care for her young.  (source)
    mockery = ridiculous thing
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    Stanley had also tried to explain that he needed to save his energy so he could teach Zero how to read, but the other boys just mocked him.  (source)
    mocked = made fun of
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    Mockingly quoting the warrant: "For the marvelous and supernatural murder of Goody Putnam's babies."†  (source)
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    "Yeah, really," he mocks in a high voice.†  (source)
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    They play a familiar dance tune, as if to mock the dirge playing inside his head.  (source)
    mock = make fun of
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    As soon as I saw him I understood that the Monkey and the Tarkaan had set him there to slay any who came in if he were not in their secrets: so that this man also was a liar and a mocker and no true servant of Tash.†  (source)
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    Whereas the phrase "till death us do part" is one of the more amusing mockeries in the nuptial arrangements of a large proportion of the human race, with wolves it is a simple fact.†  (source)
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    I happened to have scored in the end zone designated as the LSU student seating area, and so I took the liberty of celebrating with my teammates right there, all of us jumping around for just a while for the benefit of our mockers.†  (source)
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    It is your husband mock'd you with a husband.†  (source)
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mock as in:  a mock trial

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Law students compete in a pretend court in a mock trial competition.
mock = not real
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    It is an exercise where the two divisions take part in a mock battle.
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    "Let's think," said Ron in mock puzzlement.  (source)
    mock = pretend
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    They still seemed playful, making mock attacks at Ellie.  (source)
    mock = pretend (not real)
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    Sodapop looked down at me with mock superiority, but Darry went on:  (source)
    mock = pretend (not real)
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    The level of detail on the mock-up was impressive.†  (source)
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    She sat on the ground, soaking her foot in the marsh's brine, all the while moving her mouth: open, close, open, close, mocking yawns, chewing motions, anything to keep it from jamming up.  (source)
    mocking = pretend
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    Suddenly Peter smiled and clapped his hands together in a mockery of good cheer.  (source)
    mockery = something pretended
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    I shall be told that the jousts of Suero de Quinones, him of the 'Paso,' and the emprise of Mosen Luis de Falces against the Castilian knight, Don Gonzalo de Guzman, were mere mockeries; as well as many other achievements of Christian knights of these and foreign realms, which are so authentic and true, that, I repeat, he who denies them must be totally wanting in reason and good sense.  (source)
    mockeries = fakes
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    "What's wrong?" she said with mock sympathy.  (source)
    mock = not real (pretended in a fun way)
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    On September 9, 1959, I read that NASA had launched a mock-up of a Mercury manned capsule aboard a Big Joe rocket.†  (source)
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    I gave her a languorous, world-weary, faintly mocking smile.  (source)
    mocking = pretend
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    "Terrifying," Will says with mock seriousness.  (source)
    mock = pretend (not real)
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    It was the tow-fish, a mock-up of an underwater sonar device.†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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    High above us in the darkness a solitary mocker poured out his repertoire in blissful unawareness of whose tree he sat in, plunging from the shrill kee, kee of the sunflower bird to the irascible qua-ack of a bluejay, to the sad lament of Poor Will, Poor Will, Poor Will.  (source)
    mocker = a mockingbird
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    The mockingbirds and the jays, engaged in their old feud for possession of the magnolia tree beneath her window, were bickering, the jays strident, acrimonious, the mockers sweet voiced and plaintive.  (source)
    mockers = mockingbirds
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    Mock Bisque, Perch a la Provencale, Chicken a la Providence — on it came, one course after another, unrolling in an inevitable procession, like a tidal wave, or doom.  (source)
    Mock = a way of preparing food
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Mock-vater!  (source)
Mock = rare meaning
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