Example Sentences

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If you click on Gen Z when asked about your age, the script will ridicule you for easily giving up data to TikTok.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2022

Then I’d ask him if he’d prefer that you simply stop sharing things with him for fear that he will ridicule you.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2021

“Now everyone will ridicule Kikinda,” read another post on Facebook.

From Reuters • Nov. 15, 2018

“At home, they will face a gleeful political opposition who will ridicule them for being so naïve.”

From New York Times • May 24, 2018

“And Sewing Mistress will ridicule you if you sew a green rose. Roses have to be red or pink, or yellow if you’re daring.”

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine