How to Use lampoon in a Sentence

lampoon

1 of 2 noun
  • He said such ridiculous things that he was often the target of lampoons in the press.
  • Fans of the show have had to make do with a stinging lampoon of the debased billionaire class.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Many lampoon his messages, while others parrot his talking points.
    — Morgan Sung, NBC News, 19 Aug. 2022
  • More scenes that felt raw or real would more effectively ground this light-hearted lampoon.
    — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The leap from regional lampoon to gay rom-com doesn’t change the play’s basic cartoon dynamics.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Big business means big laughs in this delightfully clever lampoon of life on the corporate ladder.
    — Geauga Lyric Theater Guild, cleveland.com, 28 June 2017
  • Her sitcom lampoons snooty New Yorkers whose parenting skills are not enhanced by their wealth.
    — Washington Post, 11 July 2017
  • Trump’s like-him-one-minute, lampoon-him-the-next relationship with Zelenskyy stands in stark contrast to his rapport with Putin.
    — Michael Collins, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Goon Squad includes, for instance, a fake celebrity profile that at once lampoons the form and pays tribute to the slavering a journalist must do in order to write one.
    — Michelle Dean, New Republic, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Written in 2019, the book also feels prescient about the fast fashion landscape that Riley’s film lampoons.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 2 June 2026
  • Set a century or so in the future — when women are extinct, and men can reproduce — the play is a dark, risky lampoon of desire, power, pregnancy and religion.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Despite its debut in the decidedly less woke mid-aughts, this gender-bending lampoon of Japanese otaku and host-club culture is chock-full of graces and rewards.
    — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Could Holles have ordered the creation of the giant as a political lampoon, like a seventeenth-century Banksy?
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 12 May 2021
  • TikTok is popular in Pakistan, including videos that lampoon and criticize the government.
    — Saeed Shah, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Like Truffaut, Dupieux lampoons the infallible egos of some of France’s most famous actors, revealing the sparks that fly when those egos come crashing together on set.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 May 2024
  • All manner of mindless momentarily distracting entertainment scraps are thrown into this stew, from the Hokey Pokey to a lampoon of the birth of Jesus.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 13 Dec. 2024
  • One of Laikin’s miscalculations was his failure to grasp that Matty Simmons was in fact unpopular among many Lampoon alumni.
    — Benjamin Wallace, VanityFair.com, 19 May 2017
  • Jimmy Kimmel will make an appearance, continuing his annual lampoon of media and advertising.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Through its satirical lens, the musical lampoons the double standards that exist within the justice system, while also critiquing the way both parties manipulate the issue to score political points.
    — Michael Ghannoum, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Mary Harron’s American Psycho owes a debt to the spot-on evisceration of the hollow, nihilistic corporate culture that Nichols lampoons here.
    — EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
  • From Sinners to Scream to Smile and beyond, to uproarious lampoons of non-genre titles like Michael and Wicked, here are the victims of the latest Scary Movie.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 5 June 2026
  • The entire number lampoons the lore of subliminal messages supposedly planted in 1990s Disney blockbusters.
    — Lee Williams, OregonLive.com, 23 July 2017
  • The second Monty Python feature, however, which uproariously lampoons Arthurian legend, is — forgive me — the holy grail of the streamer’s comedic selection.
    — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 28 May 2020
  • The solipsism of artists and influencers offers infinite variations on self-lacerating lampoon, and Sebastian Silva’s new film Rotting in the Sun comes up with a dandy.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Idle, in a dead heat with the other original Pythons as the funniest Python, wrote a book for the musical that nostalgically re-creates some of the movie’s best episodes and adds a cheeky, meta-theatrical lampoon of Broadway conventions.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 15 May 2023
  • Emmerling said the show's more-than-gentle ribbing of the tenets of Mormon faith resonates particularly with members of the Latter-day Saints community, who often come up to him after curtain to share their knowing appreciation of the lampoon.
    — Eric Althoff, latimes.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • People who, even now, keep faith in the Academy Awards, and in their power to sprinkle blessings upon a noble vocation, are pained not by controversy, grandstanding, political interference, ardent arguments over diversity, or fond lampoons.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
  • My favorite early-20th-century humor writer was Stephen Leacock, a joyful misanthrope who found much to lampoon in human behavior, particularly the overheated prose in Victorian drama.
    — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Simultaneously, his work lampoons technology, revealing its absurdity and periodic recklessness.
    — Peter Holley, The Seattle Times, 16 Oct. 2018

lampoon

2 of 2 verb
  • The politician was lampooned in cartoons.
  • Starved of choice, Egyptians have taken to lampooning the process.
    — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • This isn’t the first time Lululemon has been lampooned.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Cruz defends his crassness as a good-natured way to lampoon liberal foibles.
    — Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Hunter clawed his way back 30 years later by lampooning his former self in campy comedies.
    — Gina Piccalo, latimes.com, 9 July 2018
  • The photos were released, in an unusual move, and were lampooned by some social media.
    — Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2018
  • Many social media users lampooned the new look, calling it reminiscent of a cheese grater.
    — Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 28 June 2019
  • The genre is ripe for lampooning all the Disney animals-on-a-journey films.
    — Chris Lee, Vulture, 23 June 2023
  • This type of imagery dates back centuries, and was used as a racist way to lampoon and exoticize African features.
    — Alyssa Hardy, Teen Vogue, 22 Dec. 2017
  • The effect isn’t to lampoon but to confront his raw emotion and to test his capacity for resilience.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
  • That Vladimir Putin, in full hockey gear, can lampoon the Comey debacle from across the globe.
    — Peter Savodnik, The Hive, 12 May 2017
  • The strip, which lampoons office culture, first appeared in 1989.
    — David Lieb, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Some might call such thinking retro-sexism, reinforcing old stereotypes about women even as the films seek to lampoon them.
    — April Wolfe, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2018
  • To be fair, The Simpsons has a history of lampooning all parts of the election process.
    — Esquire, 4 Nov. 2016
  • Art Buchwald once lampooned Spiro Agnew for hitting a man with a tennis ball.
    — Author: Geoff Kennedy, Alaska Dispatch News, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Some residents have lampooned the plan, arguing pickleball courts don’t belong at a windy beach.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 3 June 2026
  • Her strongest asset is her sense of humor, lampooning both society’s resistance to change as well as her own.
    — Dayna Evans, The Cut, 20 June 2017
  • There’s no shortage of shows that lampoon the president, the White House and other leaders across the globe.
    — Jeanne Jakle, ExpressNews.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • First, the coverage has tried to make this all about Nunes, and then to lampoon him as alternatively cagy and clueless.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Reddit users lampooned the plan, pointing out, among other things, the existence of nighttime and winter, when the wall might even become cold.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Each carries billboards lampooning people and issues that have gyrated into the public eye over the past year.
    — al, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Americans didn’t see themselves being lampooned.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The book, about a young man from the country who tries to make it in a big city, lampooned postwar German society as crass and commercialized.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Trump said at that time that the statements from Pyongyang lampooning Pence and threatening nuclear war were a thing of the past.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN, 6 June 2018
  • The concept is to lampoon how Southwest doesn’t assign seating or have classes of passenger sections.
    — Dallas News, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Ordinary Uzbeks, too, feel free to lampoon the campaign and grumble about the political class, without fear of being dragged off in the middle of the night.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • His next sketch is an effort at self-lampooning, that backfires as soon as Ibra realises what the writers were trying to do, and kung-fu kicks them into, yes, oblivion.
    — SI.com, 9 Oct. 2019
  • The brand is a lightning rod for people who sneer at the luxury equipment — prices start at $1,495 — and lampoon its exercise classes.
    — Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Other MPs from the party have proved themselves more than capable of lampooning the government without him.
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • If one of his businesses went pear-shaped, the consequences were relatively private and recoverable; the tabloids lampooned him, but the public stakes were low.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017

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