How to Use spoof in a Sentence

spoof

1 of 2 verb
  • Bad actors can still use trick spelling to spoof domain names.
    — Stu Sjouwerman, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • That may send a very chilling message to those who try to spoof the markets.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Police said the scammer had spoofed the number to make the call seem authentic.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Its not easy spoofing a genre that virtually spoofs itself these days.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 4 June 2026
  • And of course Groucho wore one here and there, spoofing it in his rich, lightning-fast schtick as well.
    — Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Some of the earliest victims used Gmail accounts for work, which were easy and free to spoof.
    — Reeves Wiedeman, Vulture, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The cryptography involved in this process ensures that the proof can’t be spoofed.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 12 May 2023
  • When missiles and attack drones are aimed at Russian sites, they are often spoofed or shot down.
    — Eric Schmidt, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2024
  • This is also not the first time Kramer has used AI to spoof a politician’s voice.
    — Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Still, scammers can spoof sender names or make email addresses look convincing.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2026
  • All that's required to spoof a signature is to have a public key or key ID.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 14 June 2018
  • The Iran war has led to sustained spoofing across the Persian Gulf.
    — Zak Kassas, The Conversation, 23 June 2026
  • This sketch essentially spoofs his brand partnerships and bland style.
    — Andy Hoglund, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Nov. 2025
  • To trick people to pick up the phone, crooks also spoof numbers with local area codes to hide their true location.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 8 July 2019
  • The calls come in from an unknown caller ID (though even cell phone numbers are easy to spoof these days).
    — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
  • This is the first segment since last season's Mulaney spoof with The Birds.
    — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 21 Jan. 2022
  • For mariners at sea, spoofing can have serious consequences.
    — Anna Raymaker, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2026
  • As a result, 20% of these spoofing victims have been forced to disconnect their phone.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 14 June 2019
  • An able tracer of provenance, Walpole delighted in spoofing the past.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2018
  • Thirteen years have passed since the last Scary Movie, which means there’s been a decade-plus of horror ripe for spoofing.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026
  • And, importantly, this kind of detection method can’t be avoided or spoofed.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Apr. 2026
  • One common tactic is account spoofing.
    — Marin Independent Journal, Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Cue parts in the less-than-serious Top Gun and the spy spoof Top Secret!
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 7 July 2021
  • To this day, one of her favorite parts of the ad campaign has been seeing all the ways people have spoofed it, especially drag queens.
    — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Being spoofed by @MADmagazine was one of the great honors of my acting career.
    — Patrick May, The Mercury News, 5 July 2019
  • This helps prevent criminals from hijacking phone numbers or spoofing calls and texts.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Plot details and the title for the follow-up to the Star Wars-spoofing feature have not yet been shared.
    — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The more that people know about legitimate providers, how scams will spoof these providers and their role in resisting those scams, the better.
    — Lucia Milică, Forbes, 21 May 2021
  • VPNs can also be used to spoof your location online.
    — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 1 June 2026
  • And because many of the sketches recur from episode to episode, some of them eventually spoof multiple things.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2023

spoof

2 of 2 noun
  • Way better than dusty game show and dinner party spoofs.
    — Andy Hoglund, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Kam Patterson played the role of Irvin in the spoof.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas Morning News, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The maneuver is a spoof on Hailey's viral phone case from her beauty line, rhode.
    — Catherine Santino, People.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • For instance, think back to when everyone was doing spoofs about titles that dealt with women in trains or in windows or in peril.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • That movie was an instant cult classic, a terrific spoof of modern-day music celebrity that was well received by critics.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Watch Fonda’s spoof on Kidman’s AMC ad below.
    — Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The spoof was also inspired by the actor getting into hot water with the anime community last year.
    — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 6 June 2026
  • Liveness detection verifies that a biometric sample, such as a face scan or voice clip, is from a real person, not a spoof.
    — Mohamed Lazzouni, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Another spoof, this time of golden-age Broadway musicals.
    — ABC News, 7 June 2026
  • Today, Neeson is doing action spoofs (thank God), and even the John Wick series has run its course.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
  • On last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live, a QVC spoof about a pillow took a meta turn.
    — Paula Mejía, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2025
  • What’s Upstairs at the Downstairs is always a patchwork of mild satire, blatant spoofs, witty music, local jokes.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2025
  • The goofy sketch comedies and homemade spoofs that once filled his channel gradually disappeared, replaced by melancholy short films and bleak monologues.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2026
  • In one of the spy spoof’s great running gags, his resentful Agent 13 would pop up in mailboxes, grandfather clocks, fire hydrants, planters, etc.
    — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Lead Stories is a media organization that specializes in fact-checking and online spoofs.
    — James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The spoof specifically references the franchise's famously creepy smile in several scenes and photos.
    — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
  • In the spoof, SNL focuses on Irvin’s sideline celebrations in recent weeks.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas Morning News, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Who series, but did play the Eleventh Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death spoof, and in other special broadcasts.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 15 June 2026
  • After all, that warped sitcom spoof has to be one of the most genuinely demented things to ever air, without a shred of warning and in the middle of the night, on cable TV.
    — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
  • No weapons were found, and police told Fox San Antonio the phone call came from Philadelphia and was later determined to be a spoof.
    — Julianna Duennes Russ, Austin American Statesman, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Retro Rewind players run a Blockbuster Video-like movie-rental store set in the early 1990s, complete with spoofs of real blockbusters of the era.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Early-aughts nostalgia paid off better than ’80s, as Masters of the Universe’s box-office numbers trailed behind the horror spoof.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 7 June 2026
  • Many of you came on Colbert’s show on July 21, appearing in a Coldplay kiss-cam spoof, shortly after the news of his cancellation.
    — Lacey Rose, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Sandgaard hung a large banner on the fourth floor, a spoof of a popular George Washington meme in which the Zynex founder is holding a machine gun in one hand, a bald eagle perched on his other arm.
    — Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Rather than focusing on the conspiracy theories Jones espoused, the new InfoWars will build its comedic base off a spoof of the old site’s predatory snake oil rackets.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Malin Akerman paid homage to her hilarious wig in Hunting Wives during a Halloween spoof for Sonic.
    — Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Trcka expanded her career into films and television beginning with the horror spoof Scary Movie, which hit theaters in 2000.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Jan. 2026
  • But given the current box office sensations of Obsession and Backrooms, Tiddes certainly wishes the timing had allowed for spoofs of those horror movies.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026
  • Cinemas had been flooded with spy movies by this point; even the Bond spoof Casino Royale, released the same year, rivaled the real 007 film's popularity.
    — Sezin Devi Koehler, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Jan. 2026
  • And as host, Wolfhard starred in a number of skits throughout the night, notably partaking in a Heated Rivalry spoof with the characters of Harry Potter.
    — Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 18 Jan. 2026

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