send up
- condemn v.
- confine v.
- convict v.
- curb v.
- demoralize v.
- detain v.
- heighten v.
- imitate v.
- imprison v.
- jail v.
- lampoon v.
- mock v.
- parody v.
- restrict v.
- ridicule v.
- take off v.
- tease v.
- travesty v.
- twit v.
- burlesque n.
- caricature n.
- comedy n.
- lampoon n.
- lampoonery n.
- mockery n.
- parody n.
- satire n.
- spoof n.
- takeoff n.
- travesty n.
Example Sentences
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“Too often a place will just send up a cardboard shopping bag with the things you ordered in it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
It was too late to climb and too dark to send up a drone, so he decided to wait for sunrise.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Who came up with the idea of using your red carpet appearances to send up celebrity culture?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
“Now, they send up to 400 a day.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
The military band was playing and the crowd was massed on the far side of the square where the fireworks specialist and his son were trying to send up fire balloons.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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