How to Use parody in a Sentence

parody

1 of 2 noun
  • He has a talent for writing parodies.
  • Drag is built on parody, puns and jokes.
    — Simmone Shah, Time, 2 June 2026
  • Birds from around the world are mocked in this guidebook parody.
    — Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2022
  • In an interview, the pair said the parody came from a place of love.
    — Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 19 June 2023
  • The parody defense serves the project well.
    — Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Although in this case, the line between harm and parody might be a fuzzy one.
    — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 27 Mar. 2023
  • There was a time when that sentence would have sounded like parody, but not now.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Cast members have been evasive to the point of parody.
    — Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Some of it, of course is political, but a lot of that is parody or satire.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Maybe not the best actress at that moment, but for that type of parody, forget it.
    — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 31 Mar. 2023
  • To last for the long haul, though, even the most effective parody has to work as a story of its own.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Free speech covers the jokes, the satire, the parodies—even the dumb, crass, or offensive ones.
    — Lizz Winstead, Time, 27 Sep. 2025
  • How did Jane Lynch wind up in the YouTube ad parodies?
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 16 Mar. 2026
  • But is this a parody of whiteness or a parody of the critique?
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
  • The best parody of that film was The Three Amigos.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Most fall just short or feels like a parody, but High Vis pull it off perfectly.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Check out her post sharing the Watson parody in the tweet below.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
  • There’s a very big difference between farce, parody, and satire.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
  • See the new photos from the riotous parody below.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 25 May 2026
  • This is just one song on a whole album with each song on the album being a different genre parody.
    — Vulture, 15 Aug. 2023
  • But on this album, each song is a different is a parody of a different genre.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Hilariously, these two don’t even know what’s been stolen — wait, is this movie a parody?
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Her opening number, a parody of her Moulin Rouge!
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 8 June 2026
  • There’s almost a parody of that—of the modern creative person.
    — Hazlitt, 17 May 2023
  • This is less a parody of Judd than a reckoning with flesh and other grotesqueries.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Some users made parodies of the process, and the trend gained attention from national media.
    — Rebecca Griesbach | [email protected], al, 4 May 2023
  • That’s not to suggest that the show, which recently ended its third season, is averse to over-the-top parody.
    — Elizabeth Nelson, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The Onion defends parody of law enforcement in a legal brief.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The original idea for that album was to have a James Blunt parody be the single.
    — Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 31 Mar. 2026
  • From there, the parody musical went viral.
    — Sara Belcher, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026

parody

2 of 2 verb
  • It was easy to parody the book's fancy language.
  • She parodied her brother's poetry.
  • Some things are truly hard to parody, though.
    — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Watch the full Stranger Things spinoffs parody above.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Jan. 2026
  • However try as the cold open might, the past week in the real world was just too hard to parody.
    — Rasha Ali, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2020
  • The third thing is that the Western, of all film genres, is the most easy to parody.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2022
  • So the policies that were in place almost parodied themselves.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 5 July 2019
  • But the anonymous account parodying her became the hit of the strike.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The question was how to parody a movie in which the company itself played a pivotal part.
    — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The question was how to parody a movie in which the company itself played a pivotal part.
    — Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Feb. 2026
  • His hits are the sort of country songs that detractors love to parody, full of dirt, trucks, beer, and country girls.
    — Vulture, 21 July 2023
  • Others have done it while parodying the very stock phrases that no longer feel responsive enough.
    — Katy Steinmetz, Time, 24 Apr. 2020
  • Students also wrote and performed a play that parodied life at Rochelle Zell.
    — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Users began describing each other and themselves as e-girls and e-boys and then quickly parodied the terms.
    — Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Unlike the truly great books being parodied here, these scripts can only sustain so many readings.
    — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2017
  • The whodunnit is a genre that's been heavily parodied and done to death on TV.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2019
  • The bus parodied the pro-Brexit buses that were part of the Vote Leave campaign.
    — Elena Berton, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Imagine being Cook, for instance, being parodied in this way.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • One clip parodies workday posts, offering a day in the life of a newly unemployed person.
    — Lora Kelley, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The scandal was splashed across front pages, and even parodied on Saturday Night Live.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Though Lipton could come off as self-important or sycophantic, and was parodied more than once, there’s a reason the show was a hit.
    — Stephanie Goodman, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2020
  • In this weekend’s finale, the cast of Saturday Night Live parodied the trend.
    — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 10 May 2020
  • Thoday noted that, historically, people parodied in the show, even in some of the more grotesque puppet forms, have taken pride in the fact.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Stars like Doja Cat and Lizzo have enjoyed poking fun and parodying the ads.
    — Mekishana Pierre, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Marlon Wayans embraces his first proper horror role with Him, after years of parodying the genre.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The way the wicked Fairy Carabosse briefly parodies the quivery hand gestures of a good fairy, the mockery amounting to a burst of very human spite.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • Scary Movie parodies Ma alongside Michael, Weapons alongside Wicked.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 6 June 2026
  • Many parodied her overt sexuality by swapping her out for someone decidedly less sexy on the wrecking ball.
    — Ben Pettis, The Conversation, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The videos even parody the same catchy jingles that Apple used in its commercials, which Steve Job's once deemed too funny at one point.
    — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The original Scary Movie franchise parodied the teen-slasher flicks that were so abundant in the late ’90s and aughts.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025

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