make sport of
Example Sentences
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Even so, it isn’t always clear which gestures in the film should be taken seriously, and which make sport of the genre’s masculine posturing while offering an allegory about a birth mother’s sacrifice.
From New York Times • May 11, 2023
Some of them can come off as a bit provocative by appearing to make sport of grave topics in the news.
From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2023
“Da”- limericks: The dachshund, each hair and each wart of it, Serves for the wags to make sport of it.
From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2022
They didn’t just make sport of their trolls — although they did that effectively.
From Salon • Jun. 12, 2012
Another “thought they might be deceptive spirits, disposed to make sport of us.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
