Example Sentences

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She said she was taken aback at how people were ridiculing her on a pro-mask group on Facebook.

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2021

Another overheard some local teenage girls, who had been invited to the Wing for an event, speaking in Spanish, and complained that they were ridiculing her.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2020

“Some people were ridiculing California, and some were calling it a failed state,” Mr. Brown, a Democrat, said in an interview.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2013

If I was working in a place and people were ridiculing me and they were -- that was the boss --I don’t think I’d want to work there.”

From BusinessWeek • Dec. 31, 2011

The Hare, almost dead, as a consolation in his agony, exclaimed: “You, who so lately, free from care, were ridiculing my misfortunes, have now to deplore your own fate with as woful cause.”

From The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)