Example Sentences

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At the heart of the heated online debates was whether Chappelle was endorsing antisemitism along with Ye and Irving’s recent statements — or if he was lampooning it.

From Washington Post • Nov. 13, 2022

Hall was lampooning behavior men in Hollywood have gotten away with for eons, and she's a sharp comic actor.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2022

And *that* was the very culture that the Lampoon was lampooning.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2018

As Malcolm Gladwell recently pointed out, Harry Enfield’s 80s character Loadsa Money quickly got co-opted by the aspirational braggarts he was lampooning.

From The Guardian • Sep. 21, 2017

As early as 1832 Jerrold was lampooning him in his "Punch in London."

From The History of "Punch" by Spielmann, M. H. (Marion Harry)