How to Use send-up in a Sentence

send-up

1 of 2 noun
  • This movie is both a meta reboot and a send-up of reboots.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Hacks takes no backseat in its send-up of show biz inanity, but with more heart along the way.
    — Howard Homonoff, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • Brosnan attempts a send-up of his most famous role as a sleek and suave action man.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 7 July 2023
  • The gags include send-ups of studio heads, fruitcake, and Al Gore.
    — Suelain Moy, Parents, 14 June 2024
  • These people are all idiots, which is what makes this send-up of surveillance state paranoia so brilliant.
    — Will Harris, EW.com, 10 Aug. 2024
  • The Teyana Taylor and Michael send-ups were shot after the Oscars.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 7 June 2026
  • The moment is at once a lens into a power dynamic that will run the length of the film, and a send-up of monkey see, monkey do.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
  • But soon, a group of preppy teens misidentifies them as murderers in a comedy-horror send-up of the genre.
    — James Mercadante, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Glover knows his way around satire; many of Atlanta’s best episodes were send-ups of music-world surreality.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The singer also hopes fans of both his music and reality TV will enjoy the send-up.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Mar. 2026
  • And, for the record, note that Sanders responded to the audit with a hip-hop video send-up arrogantly scoffing.
    — John Brummett, arkansasonline.com, 17 Apr. 2024
  • At once a brilliant send-up of the horror genre and a loving homage, this film will satisfy enthusiasts and dabblers alike.
    — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The vibe is one of camp send-up of Hollywood narcissism, but irony and egotism are blended like a fine Bordeaux.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The names go on and on, a gleeful send-up of what was, at the time of its premiere in 1997, the peak of sophistication.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Not only is this montage a fun send-up of social media sleuthing and the resulting pile-ons, but what a clever way to bring back this parade of familiar faces.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Gerwig delights in the richness and weirdness of her material in this clever send-up of Barbie dolls and their fraught legacy.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2023
  • The film is a send-up of just about everything that shaped ’80s pop culture, from hip-hop and sci-fi blockbusters to the decade’s biggest sports stars and kung fu movies.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Castle takes ample advantage of the jokes that hang at the expense of tropes that have endured since Whale's send-up, and the ones that have emerged in the interim.
    — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Castle takes ample advantage of the jokes that hang at the expense of tropes that have endured since Whale's send-up, and the ones that have emerged in the interim.
    — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Walker conceived his lexicon as a lovingly ironic send-up of comic-strip conventions.
    — Cullen Murphy, Air Mail, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Part showbiz send-up and part earnest romantic drama, the film lurches awkwardly between its two modes without settling on a single cohesive tone.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2024
  • These gameplay issues feel planned by the developer as a feature rather than a bug — as a send-up to the past — but some sections can rely on lightning-quick reflexes, or a bit of luck.
    — Matt Gardner, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • But in her view, Merrily is far from the bleak show business send-up that critics excoriated in 1981.
    — Marley Marius, Vogue, 21 Aug. 2023
  • This biting send-up exposes the wondrously diverse dog owners who travel from all over America to showcase their four-legged contenders.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 29 Apr. 2025
  • That’s a good thing, according to the actor, who seems to have had her eyes wide open when agreeing to lead a send-up of Big Tech for a company like Apple.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 16 July 2024
  • What setting could be richer and riper for send-up than the kitchen, the traditional domain of femininity and domesticity?
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
  • The book presents itself as a comic take on the classic adultery novel and a send-up of a narrow, self-conscious group of downwardly mobile New Yorkers.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The shift was evident on the album’s title track, where Prine wryly took stock of his status on rock’s fringes to blues changes that felt like a simultaneous tribute and send-up of gospel.
    — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
  • But if the show’s send-up of Hegseth established that there are still moments in the broader culture that can get everyone talking about the same thing, the rest of the episode argued the opposite.
    — Erik Adams, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2025
  • This Booker Prize winner’s third novel is a send-up of the environmental causes supported by tech billionaires.
    — Adam Bell, Charlotte Observer, 5 June 2024

send up

2 of 2 verb
  • Flames sent up a large plume of smoke that could be seen for blocks.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Why not hold hands and send up one big prayer to God?
    — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Some big bulbs send up two to three stalks to flower.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Plants are sold as a bare-root crown which sends up new shoots in spring.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 18 Nov. 2025
  • And then, as always, the idea sent up the chain.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Some may send up shoots from near the ground but below the grafts.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Many died back to the ground, but are now sending up new shoots.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 May 2026
  • One hit the ground and caught fire, sending up a plume of black smoke.
    — Susan Montoya Bryan, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Each spring, star begonias send up spikes of pink blooms.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Buildings had been felled by airstrikes, sending up plumes of smoke.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
  • North Korea could send up a dummy mass to test those stages.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2016
  • Mostly just to send up the idea of a household run like a restaurant.
    — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Fires also send up plumes of soot that screen sunlight and add to warming.
    — Emma Bryce, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Sotomayor, in contrast, does not miss a chance to send up a flare.
    — Ariane De Vogue, CNN, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Buses sent up sprays of dirty water, and the gutters ran fast and bright.
    — Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
  • The fire now doubled in height, sending up thick, black plumes of smoke that rose above the cliff.
    — Nathan Thrall, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Once roots form the top half of the potato above ground begins to send up green shoots with leaves.
    — Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 10 May 2026
  • Pulling it does no good because any root left in the ground sends up another plant.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 7 July 2023
  • LauncherOne is able to send up to about half a ton of satellites into space.
    — Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2022
  • That overwintering mass sends up new growth in spring.
    — Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 22 May 2025
  • The fire destroyed the church and sent up clouds of smoke that were visible for miles.
    — John Wisely, Freep.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Pulling it does no good because any root left in the ground sends up another plant.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2025
  • When the weather is wet, these fungi that grow in the lawn year-round send up mushrooms.
    — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The colchicums send up a big, bold, and blousy mass of shiny green foliage in early summer.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Bags are offloaded in the same room where they’re put onto carts and then sent up to baggage claim.
    — USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The legal battle spanned years and was sent up to the Supreme Court.
    — Liz Elting, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Amazon plans to launch thousands of satellites but has yet to send up a single one.
    — Christian Davenport and Joseph Menn, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • It is now reduced to piles of rubble, some of which continue to send up thin smoke.
    — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Usually, the shrub will respond by sending up new stems from its roots in spring.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The problem is that the rootstock can send up suckers from the roots below the graft union.
    — Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 27 Feb. 2026

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