parodying

Example Sentences

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Parodying John Maynard Keynes, who wrote a book about The Economic Consequences of the Peace, you might say that the currywurst is one of The Gastronomic Consequences of the Peace.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2014

Parodying a touch-typing program that many of her readers will recognize from grade-school, she writes, “Mavis Beacon bursts out of the computer and shows me where to put my fingers.”

From The New Yorker • May 29, 2014

Parodying Old Hollywood’s version of hinting at a terminal illness is just the sort of thing that festival would do.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2011

Parodying the Thurber memoir, The Years with Ross, they told their father that he should call his effort The Years with Thurber.

From Time Magazine Archive

Parodying Terence's lines, he says: "I am a man, and all that concerns woman interests me."

From English Pharisees and French Crocodiles and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters by O'Rell, Max