How to Use satirist in a Sentence

satirist

noun
  • The fact is, the four of us were satirists.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 16 Dec. 2025
  • But Holsinger is not at heart a satirist, or at least not a mean one.
    — Ron Charles critic, Washington Post, 16 July 2019
  • But satire, as a rule, falls flat when the satirist has so little to say.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
  • Del Rey wasn’t a poser, the thinking went, so much as a satirist.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Foodies, celebrity chefs, the filthy rich—this is low-hanging fruit for a satirist.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 16 Nov. 2022
  • What happens to a satirist who sees her darkest visions made real?
    — Madeleine Schwartz, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
  • As is inevitable with truly great satire, the satirist had become a moralist.
    — M. D. Aeschliman, National Review, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Deighton is not a satirist — except for the occasional sly aside.
    — Malcolm Gladwell, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Pushing the limits of free expression — isn’t that what any good satirist should do?
    — John McMurtrie, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2017
  • High fashion satirist guys who’ll soon be in need of chiropractors.
    — New York Times, 1 Jan. 2021
  • The satirist's objective should be to remind us that truth lies in our reflection.
    — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2020
  • The scene at Annie’s baby shower would be low-hanging fruit for any satirist.
    — Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Eight years of clamorous politics and four indictments later, what more can satirists say?
    — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
  • House Bill 1277 could have been written by the satirists at The Onion.
    — Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 19 May 2025
  • The sharp-toothed satirist’s conservatism wasn’t doctrinaire, our critic writes.
    — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
  • For a satirist or a cynic, Esperantists are easy fodder.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • The satirist was reminding us of a constant across generations.
    — Itxu Díaz, National Review, 3 Sep. 2023
  • In the aftermath of 9-11, the satirists at The Onion had to be funny again.
    — Kyle Whitmire, al, 3 May 2020
  • Presented with new evidence, the satirist deferred to the creator.
    — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2017
  • Some satirists have begun targeting these pliant broadcasters as well.
    — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Saul, an architect and after-hours satirist, was pragmatic and wisecracking about the whole thing.
    — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The ongoing war between woke and anti-woke factions is a fatuous melodrama best left to the satirists.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
  • Might voters choose one of these as a farewell salute to a favorite program – or one of two comedic songs from a popular series or biopic of a beloved satirist?
    — Jon Burlingame, Variety, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Until the attempt to muzzle Kimmel failed, giving satirists a new cause and fresh passion to pursue it.
    — Eric Deggans, NPR, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Others swept up in the crackdown include satirist Sanjay Rajoura.
    — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Well, Ishmael, in making that statement, fulfills his obligation as a satirist, as a gadfly, as the court jester.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2022
  • Heinrich Heine, whose poem the statue commemorates, was a satirist and a Jew.
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • The British satirist Gillray’s lampoons and caricatures took on folly in the court and among the common.
    — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • One key figure in her universe is Tom Lehrer, the musical satirist and local hero who died last July.
    — Brett Milano, Boston Herald, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Move’s work was that not of a satirist but of a believer, of a terrific dancer who inhabited Graham’s genius.
    — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025

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