hold up to ridicule
Example Sentences
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Neither does Dryden neglect to hold up to ridicule the slips in Latin and English grammar, which marked the offensive Preface to the "Duke of Lerma."
From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by George Saintsbury
Many of these reviews took occasion to pick out and hold up to ridicule the illogical sentences, the grammatical solecisms, and general imperfections of technique which marked and disfigured the Siege of Corinth.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
I can quite understand, even at this day, the making of a book which should hold up to ridicule the whole of a nation on account of these differences.
From As We Are and As We May Be by Sir Walter Besant
"You shouldn't hold up to ridicule the shepherd of your soul."
From The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann
I am a believer in cremation, but that is no reason why I should hold up to ridicule the clumsier and more unhealthy churchyard burials about which so much sentiment exists.
From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Harry Furniss
