How to Use parody in a Sentence

parody

1 of 2 noun

• He has a talent for writing parodies.
• Plus, the parody song paired with the end credits is top notch.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• In an interview, the pair said the parody came from a place of love.
  — Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 19 June 2023
• Birds from around the world are mocked in this guidebook parody.
  — Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2022
• Although in this case, the line between harm and parody might be a fuzzy one.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 27 Mar. 2023
• To last for the long haul, though, even the most effective parody has to work as a story of its own.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 7 Jan. 2024
• Some of it, of course is political, but a lot of that is parody or satire.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Dec. 2023
• Maybe not the best actress at that moment, but for that type of parody, forget it.
  — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 31 Mar. 2023
• Wife Kyra Sedgwick joined him for that last parody in 2017.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
• In one scene that made the Tribeca audience groan, Howard Stern does a parody in blackface.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2023
• But is this a parody of whiteness or a parody of the critique?
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
• Most fall just short or feels like a parody, but High Vis pull it off perfectly.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 12 Jan. 2024
• That’s not to suggest that the show, which recently ended its third season, is averse to over-the-top parody.
  — Elizabeth Nelson, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• Watch 21 explain that the movie was just a parody and find the American Dream trailer below.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 25 Jan. 2024
• When users took to changing their account names to Elon Musk, Twitter tweaked the standing parody policy to make the act grounds for a ban.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2023
• The elements in the mod, save for a few, probably wouldn’t be recognized as parody by a court, McArthur says.
  — Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 31 Jan. 2024
• This is just one song on a whole album with each song on the album being a different genre parody.
  — Vulture, 15 Aug. 2023
• There’s almost a parody of that—of the modern creative person.
  — Hazlitt, 17 May 2023
• Some users made parodies of the process, and the trend gained attention from national media.
  — Rebecca Griesbach | [e-mail], al, 4 May 2023
• The Onion defends parody of law enforcement in a legal brief.
  — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2023
• But on this album, each song is a different is a parody of a different genre.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2023
• Hilariously, these two don’t even know what’s been stolen — wait, is this movie a parody?
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• General Lam’s gilded steak, and Mr. Lam’s parody of his over-the-top meal, were unusual.
  — Chau Doan, New York Times, 26 May 2023
• The Fedex driver's original intent for the parody clip was simply to amuse family and friends.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 19 July 2023
• The line of dialogue has been a calling card for Cage’s career for 19 years now and counting, and it’s inspired countless memes and parodies on the internet.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 22 Nov. 2023
• Birds from North America are mocked in this guidebook parody.
  — Becky Meloan, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
• But seriously, in my opinion, a lot of the music has become a parody of the worst stereotypes of the Black community.
  — Spin Staff, Spin, 22 Sep. 2023
• Of course, that dissonance is part of the novel’s parody, too, and maybe why White Noise feels so confounding—though not unrewarding—to watch.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2022
• The idea that his act could be a parody of the glad-handing, overly sincere entertainer rather than the thing itself fits both his strengths as an absurdist comic and the tongue-in-cheek times themselves.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2024
• Director-star Vera Drew’s parody is unlike any Batman movie before it.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 5 Apr. 2024

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parody

2 of 2 verb

• It was easy to parody the book's fancy language.
• She parodied her brother's poetry.
• The third thing is that the Western, of all film genres, is the most easy to parody.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2022
• No one else on the show was parodied for their features.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 23 Oct. 2023
• However try as the cold open might, the past week in the real world was just too hard to parody.
  — Rasha Ali, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2020
• But the anonymous account parodying her became the hit of the strike.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 29 Sep. 2023
• The bus parodied the pro-Brexit buses that were part of the Vote Leave campaign.
  — Elena Berton, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2018
• Watch Johansson parody the speech in the full video above.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2024
• His hits are the sort of country songs that detractors love to parody, full of dirt, trucks, beer, and country girls.
  — Vulture, 21 July 2023
• And it’s been parodied countless times in pop culture since.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 6 Sep. 2018
• The images were widely parodied, but Leo stood her ground.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2023
• The question was how to parody a movie in which the company itself played a pivotal part.
  — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 10 Feb. 2023
• The whodunnit is a genre that's been heavily parodied and done to death on TV.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2019
• Co-hosts Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles kicked the show off with a self-parodying duet on piano for all the losers out there — including them.
  — Mark Kennedy, Sun-Sentinel.com, 11 June 2018
• During the latest episode of the late-night comedy show, Joy and Meghan's fights were mocked on a sketch parodying The View.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 15 Apr. 2019
• The way the wicked Fairy Carabosse briefly parodies the quivery hand gestures of a good fairy, the mockery amounting to a burst of very human spite.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
• So the policies that were in place almost parodied themselves.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 5 July 2019
• Students also wrote and performed a play that parodied life at Rochelle Zell.
  — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• In this weekend’s finale, the cast of Saturday Night Live parodied the trend.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 10 May 2020
• Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn, the famous Vegas performers who work with big game cats, were parodied by the show in 1993.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 8 May 2020
• In the past few years, the follicular abominations have made it to the cover of The New Yorker and have been parodied on Portlandia.
  — Anna Silman, The Cut, 28 July 2017
• Though Lipton could come off as self-important or sycophantic, and was parodied more than once, there’s a reason the show was a hit.
  — Stephanie Goodman, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2020
• The videos even parody the same catchy jingles that Apple used in its commercials, which Steve Job's once deemed too funny at one point.
  — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 17 Mar. 2021
• All of which Everett exploits to parody both the Bond films and the bizarro world of physics and mathematics in the outer limits of reality.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2022
• Evan Rachel Wood appears as Madonna, who begins an affair with Yankovic in hopes of convincing him to parody one of her songs.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
• The Ig Nobels have been awarded since 1991 to parody the more established Nobel Prizes.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN, 18 Sep. 2020
• Mel Brooks parodied the story in 1974's Young Frankenstein.
  — refinery29.com, 24 May 2018
• For those who dream of seeing the day-to-day lives of the Royal family, check out The Windsors, a British series that parodies the royal family soap opera style.
  — Mahita Gajanan, Time, 7 May 2018
• The song first garnered traction on the app back in 2021, when a video of someone parodying Rodrigo’s music video went viral.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 2 Apr. 2023
• At another booth, dubbed the Palace of the Winds, classical music was parodied with a chorus of live flatulence.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024