How to Use satirize in a Sentence

satirize

verb
  • The book satirizes contemporary life.
  • As for what to satirize, that’s tricky because some stories come and go so fast.
    — Allen Pierleoni, sacbee, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Both versions satirize a seeming city of gold that turns out to be anything but that.
    — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Pop culture had, in the past, spoofed and satirized the pretentious wine drinker.
    — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 17 July 2019
  • The show is open by design, inviting everyone in just to satirize them, all in good fun.
    — Laura Zornosa, Time, 25 Oct. 2022
  • In the years since, the stylistic tropes of true-crime podcasting have become all too easy to satirize.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2022
  • And to me, to be a character in a book, and to be satirized, that would be like the greatest thing of all time for me.
    — Andrea Lavinthal, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • To make Trump an object of ridicule then was edgy; to satirize him now is both obvious and not enough.
    — Carolyn Kellogg, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2022
  • It has also been used to satirize some not-so-stereotypical traits.
    — NBC News, 31 Dec. 2021
  • But satirizing a character quite a bit like me proved harder.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
  • If anything, there has never been a better time to satirize the hubris and folly that pervades the world of tech.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Her tweet went viral and sparked a chain reaction of follow-up posts satirizing hers.
    — Gabe Bergado, Teen Vogue, 26 Dec. 2017
  • While ties remained a thing, a couple of key labels in Milan satirized them.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 1 July 2024
  • More often than not, the show strives to satirize several different marks rather than home in on a single point.
    — Amanda Wicks, The Atlantic, 8 May 2022
  • Our job is to try to find ways to satirize him in a way that no one else is doing, which is kind of easy because everyone is doing the same thing.
    — Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 23 Aug. 2017
  • If satirizing a wannabe tech mogul feels like low-hanging fruit for some readers, Lipstein at least keeps the growing genre fresh.
    — Maddie Crum, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
  • But the show’s true power was its ability to satirize both ’70s cartoons and aughts culture wars.
    — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Producers have moved the show to an every-other-week schedule to more fully satirize current events.
    — Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • This raises a lot of questions about satirizing acutely current events, and what to do when those events are on the verge of overtaking the satire.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2025
  • The show also loves to satirize show business and multiple episodes are set in Hollywood.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The fact that this is to the dismay of her family allows for satirizing the family unit itself.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The past few years have seen a slew of works that satirize the wealthy and, ultimately, relish in their turbulent, shocking downfall.
    — Meg Walters, Glamour, 10 Mar. 2023
  • If the idea is to satirize Guy-Claude’s interest in Aline, the movie is onto something — maybe.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Based on a True Story is, in fact, based on (or at least partly inspired by) a true story, while also satirizing true crime tropes.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Warhol, of course, is known for at once satirizing and embodying mass production through his art and his studio, the Factory.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Showrunner Eric Kripke and his team of writers are constantly using this premise to satirize the world around them.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The movie is one big homage to Cage in which the actor somehow manages to both satirize perceptions of himself and act out those personas sincerely.
    — cleveland, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Kripke and his writers like to use the world of The Boys to satirize our own culture, including superhero culture.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 3 June 2022
  • Adams first published Dilbert, a comic strip that satirized life in white-collar offices, in 1989.
    — People Staff, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The Fosters launch the campaign on Thursday in a video, satirizing celebrities who want to go unnoticed in public.
    — Charlie Carballo, Footwear News, 24 Apr. 2025

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