Sample Sentences for
satire
(editor-reviewed)

satire as in:  wrote a satire

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  • His essay was a satire on the source of food in the school dining hall—"MYSTERY MEAT,"  (source)
    satire = humorous criticism
  • They closed the door behind them with exaggerated, perhaps even satirical, care, and at the moment they released the handle Emily picked up her spoon and the company followed her.  (source)
    satirical = in a mocking way
  • Satire employs humor systematically for the purpose of persuasion  (source)
    Satire = criticism in a humorous way
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  • Also, it wouldn't hurt if you wrote a few more satire pieces for what we hope is going to be a newspaper one of these days.†  (source)
  • And she realized yes, his mouth was completely satirical, it was car-icaturish, a form of talking anus from the countercomics of the sixties, and all the jeers and taunts we'd uttered, all the half sentences we'd mumbled had come out of the same body opening, more or less.†  (source)
  • He rolled his eyes and went through a limber, satiric buck-and-wing.†  (source)
  • As we cut left on the almost satirically named Wall Street, Nathaniel holds up the procession to grab a dustpan and broom from his cart so he can clear the cigarette butts, syringes and empty cans.†  (source)
  • I daresay his papers, if he has left any, include some satires that may be published without too destructive results fifty years hence.†  (source)
  • My father, before he met an unfortunate accident ...my father was a great admirer of Julius Streicher for this reason—he applauded the way in which Herr Streicher has satirized so instructively this degenerate trait in the Jewish character.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
  • Eventually, Threpe was called up onto the stage where he sang a scathing little ditty of his own design, satirizing one of Tarbean's councilmen.†  (source)
  • And there is always the non-productive brotherhood of critics to disparage and to satirize, to view with horror and contempt.†  (source)
  • It was some foul parody, some infamous, ignoble satire.†  (source)
  • Even in anger, he was suave and satirical, and whisky usually served to intensify these qualities.†  (source)
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