How to Use lampoon in a Sentence

lampoon

1 of 2 noun

• He said such ridiculous things that he was often the target of lampoons in the press.
• Fans of the show have had to make do with a stinging lampoon of the debased billionaire class.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021
• The leap from regional lampoon to gay rom-com doesn’t change the play’s basic cartoon dynamics.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2019
• Goon Squad includes, for instance, a fake celebrity profile that at once lampoons the form and pays tribute to the slavering a journalist must do in order to write one.
  — Michelle Dean, New Republic, 28 Sep. 2017
• Her sitcom lampoons snooty New Yorkers whose parenting skills are not enhanced by their wealth.
  — Washington Post, 11 July 2017
• Big business means big laughs in this delightfully clever lampoon of life on the corporate ladder.
  — Geauga Lyric Theater Guild, cleveland.com, 28 June 2017
• Many lampoon his messages, while others parrot his talking points.
  — Morgan Sung, NBC News, 19 Aug. 2022
• The breakout hit film is becoming a series on Disney+ and is set to lampoon famous movies and TV shows throughout Hollywood history.
  — Keith Langston, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2022
• Could Holles have ordered the creation of the giant as a political lampoon, like a seventeenth-century Banksy?
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 12 May 2021
• Despite its debut in the decidedly less woke mid-aughts, this gender-bending lampoon of Japanese otaku and host-club culture is chock-full of graces and rewards.
  — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2021
• Set a century or so in the future — when women are extinct, and men can reproduce — the play is a dark, risky lampoon of desire, power, pregnancy and religion.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2017
• Some Twitter users have noted that the chicken's appearance is seemingly a pretty spot-on lampoon of President Donald Trump?
  — Devon Ivie, Teen Vogue, 9 Aug. 2017
• Julia Wachtel provides a lively lampoon of Salle: a diptych of two African tribal sculptures teamed with a nebbishy creature, likely copied from a joke greeting card, who sheds a tear while hoisting an immense daisy.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
• One of Laikin’s miscalculations was his failure to grasp that Matty Simmons was in fact unpopular among many Lampoon alumni.
  — Benjamin Wallace, VanityFair.com, 19 May 2017
• The second Monty Python feature, however, which uproariously lampoons Arthurian legend, is — forgive me — the holy grail of the streamer’s comedic selection.
  — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 28 May 2020
• TikTok is popular in Pakistan, including videos that lampoon and criticize the government.
  — Saeed Shah, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2020
• The entire number lampoons the lore of subliminal messages supposedly planted in 1990s Disney blockbusters.
  — Lee Williams, OregonLive.com, 23 July 2017
• Emmerling said the show's more-than-gentle ribbing of the tenets of Mormon faith resonates particularly with members of the Latter-day Saints community, who often come up to him after curtain to share their knowing appreciation of the lampoon.
  — Eric Althoff, latimes.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Jimmy Kimmel will make an appearance, continuing his annual lampoon of media and advertising.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 8 Feb. 2022
• My favorite early-20th-century humor writer was Stephen Leacock, a joyful misanthrope who found much to lampoon in human behavior, particularly the overheated prose in Victorian drama.
  — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2021
• Simultaneously, his work lampoons technology, revealing its absurdity and periodic recklessness.
  — Peter Holley, The Seattle Times, 16 Oct. 2018
• He said such ridiculous things that he was often the target of lampoons in the press.
• Fans of the show have had to make do with a stinging lampoon of the debased billionaire class.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021
• The leap from regional lampoon to gay rom-com doesn’t change the play’s basic cartoon dynamics.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2019
• Goon Squad includes, for instance, a fake celebrity profile that at once lampoons the form and pays tribute to the slavering a journalist must do in order to write one.
  — Michelle Dean, New Republic, 28 Sep. 2017
• Her sitcom lampoons snooty New Yorkers whose parenting skills are not enhanced by their wealth.
  — Washington Post, 11 July 2017
• Big business means big laughs in this delightfully clever lampoon of life on the corporate ladder.
  — Geauga Lyric Theater Guild, cleveland.com, 28 June 2017
• Many lampoon his messages, while others parrot his talking points.
  — Morgan Sung, NBC News, 19 Aug. 2022
• The breakout hit film is becoming a series on Disney+ and is set to lampoon famous movies and TV shows throughout Hollywood history.
  — Keith Langston, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2022
• Could Holles have ordered the creation of the giant as a political lampoon, like a seventeenth-century Banksy?
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 12 May 2021

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lampoon

2 of 2 verb

• The politician was lampooned in cartoons.
• It was lampooned in the 1996 Pauly Shore movie Bio-Dome.
  — Diana Budds, Curbed, 11 July 2019
• Roem has an idea for a title that would lampoon the charge.
  — Joe Garofoli, SFChronicle.com, 19 June 2018
• Those lampooned usually have stood in the way of true love.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2019
• That Vladimir Putin, in full hockey gear, can lampoon the Comey debacle from across the globe.
  — Peter Savodnik, The Hive, 12 May 2017
• Last month, leaked footage of a closed-door speech by Turnbull showed him lampooning Trump.
  — Matthew Brockett, Bloomberg.com, 16 July 2017
• To be fair, The Simpsons has a history of lampooning all parts of the election process.
  — Esquire, 4 Nov. 2016
• Starved of choice, Egyptians have taken to lampooning the process.
  — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
• There’s no shortage of shows that lampoon the president, the White House and other leaders across the globe.
  — Jeanne Jakle, ExpressNews.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• The genre is ripe for lampooning all the Disney animals-on-a-journey films.
  — Chris Lee, Vulture, 23 June 2023
• The strip, which lampoons office culture, first appeared in 1989.
  — David Lieb, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2023
• This type of imagery dates back centuries, and was used as a racist way to lampoon and exoticize African features.
  — Alyssa Hardy, Teen Vogue, 22 Dec. 2017
• Art Buchwald once lampooned Spiro Agnew for hitting a man with a tennis ball.
  — Author: Geoff Kennedy, Alaska Dispatch News, 1 Sep. 2017
• Trump said at that time that the statements from Pyongyang lampooning Pence and threatening nuclear war were a thing of the past.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 6 June 2018
• Daly doesn't mean for Forrest to lampoon your profession.
  — Whitney Friedlander, Esquire, 16 Mar. 2017
• Hunter clawed his way back 30 years later by lampooning his former self in campy comedies.
  — Gina Piccalo, latimes.com, 9 July 2018
• First, the coverage has tried to make this all about Nunes, and then to lampoon him as alternatively cagy and clueless.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 1 Feb. 2018
• The book, about a young man from the country who tries to make it in a big city, lampooned postwar German society as crass and commercialized.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• The photos were released, in an unusual move, and were lampooned by some social media.
  — Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2018
• Ordinary Uzbeks, too, feel free to lampoon the campaign and grumble about the political class, without fear of being dragged off in the middle of the night.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• Many social media users lampooned the new look, calling it reminiscent of a cheese grater.
  — Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 28 June 2019
• The brand is a lightning rod for people who sneer at the luxury equipment — prices start at $1,495 — and lampoon its exercise classes.
  — Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2022
• Coveralls splotched with black were among the 2011 costumes lampooning BP after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
  — Kevin McGill, The Denver Post, 9 Feb. 2017
• Cruz defends his crassness as a good-natured way to lampoon liberal foibles.
  — Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2022
• Some might call such thinking retro-sexism, reinforcing old stereotypes about women even as the films seek to lampoon them.
  — April Wolfe, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2018
• But can anyone lampoon her style without relying on it?
  — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• But as some critics have pointed out, inviting Spicer to appear at the Emmys to lampoon his former White House role smacks a bit of normalization.
  — Laura Bradley, vanityfair.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• But Medvedev simply made way for Putin to regain the presidency in 2012, leaving Medvedev lampooned on social media as weak and pitiful.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2020
• His next sketch is an effort at self-lampooning, that backfires as soon as Ibra realises what the writers were trying to do, and kung-fu kicks them into, yes, oblivion.
  — SI.com, 9 Oct. 2019
• The snark delighted and attracted other commenters like moths to a flame, who began to lampoon me for using upspeak, my liberal use of filler words and for my strong vocal fry.
  — Clarissa Wei, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2023

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