How to Use lampoon in a Sentence

lampoon

1 of 2 noun
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  • He said such ridiculous things that he was often the target of lampoons in the press.
  • Fans of the show have had to make do with a stinging lampoon of the debased billionaire class.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The leap from regional lampoon to gay rom-com doesn’t change the play’s basic cartoon dynamics.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Goon Squad includes, for instance, a fake celebrity profile that at once lampoons the form and pays tribute to the slavering a journalist must do in order to write one.
    — Michelle Dean, New Republic, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Her sitcom lampoons snooty New Yorkers whose parenting skills are not enhanced by their wealth.
    — Washington Post, 11 July 2017
  • Big business means big laughs in this delightfully clever lampoon of life on the corporate ladder.
    — Geauga Lyric Theater Guild, cleveland.com, 28 June 2017
  • Many lampoon his messages, while others parrot his talking points.
    — Morgan Sung, NBC News, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The breakout hit film is becoming a series on Disney+ and is set to lampoon famous movies and TV shows throughout Hollywood history.
    — Keith Langston, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Could Holles have ordered the creation of the giant as a political lampoon, like a seventeenth-century Banksy?
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 12 May 2021
  • Despite its debut in the decidedly less woke mid-aughts, this gender-bending lampoon of Japanese otaku and host-club culture is chock-full of graces and rewards.
    — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Set a century or so in the future — when women are extinct, and men can reproduce — the play is a dark, risky lampoon of desire, power, pregnancy and religion.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Some Twitter users have noted that the chicken's appearance is seemingly a pretty spot-on lampoon of President Donald Trump?
    — Devon Ivie, Teen Vogue, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Julia Wachtel provides a lively lampoon of Salle: a diptych of two African tribal sculptures teamed with a nebbishy creature, likely copied from a joke greeting card, who sheds a tear while hoisting an immense daisy.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
  • One of Laikin’s miscalculations was his failure to grasp that Matty Simmons was in fact unpopular among many Lampoon alumni.
    — Benjamin Wallace, VanityFair.com, 19 May 2017
  • The second Monty Python feature, however, which uproariously lampoons Arthurian legend, is — forgive me — the holy grail of the streamer’s comedic selection.
    — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 28 May 2020
  • TikTok is popular in Pakistan, including videos that lampoon and criticize the government.
    — Saeed Shah, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2020
  • The entire number lampoons the lore of subliminal messages supposedly planted in 1990s Disney blockbusters.
    — Lee Williams, OregonLive.com, 23 July 2017
  • Emmerling said the show's more-than-gentle ribbing of the tenets of Mormon faith resonates particularly with members of the Latter-day Saints community, who often come up to him after curtain to share their knowing appreciation of the lampoon.
    — Eric Althoff, latimes.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Jimmy Kimmel will make an appearance, continuing his annual lampoon of media and advertising.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 8 Feb. 2022
  • My favorite early-20th-century humor writer was Stephen Leacock, a joyful misanthrope who found much to lampoon in human behavior, particularly the overheated prose in Victorian drama.
    — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Simultaneously, his work lampoons technology, revealing its absurdity and periodic recklessness.
    — Peter Holley, The Seattle Times, 16 Oct. 2018
  • He said such ridiculous things that he was often the target of lampoons in the press.
  • Fans of the show have had to make do with a stinging lampoon of the debased billionaire class.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The leap from regional lampoon to gay rom-com doesn’t change the play’s basic cartoon dynamics.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Goon Squad includes, for instance, a fake celebrity profile that at once lampoons the form and pays tribute to the slavering a journalist must do in order to write one.
    — Michelle Dean, New Republic, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Her sitcom lampoons snooty New Yorkers whose parenting skills are not enhanced by their wealth.
    — Washington Post, 11 July 2017
  • Big business means big laughs in this delightfully clever lampoon of life on the corporate ladder.
    — Geauga Lyric Theater Guild, cleveland.com, 28 June 2017
  • Many lampoon his messages, while others parrot his talking points.
    — Morgan Sung, NBC News, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The breakout hit film is becoming a series on Disney+ and is set to lampoon famous movies and TV shows throughout Hollywood history.
    — Keith Langston, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Could Holles have ordered the creation of the giant as a political lampoon, like a seventeenth-century Banksy?
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 12 May 2021
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lampoon

2 of 2 verb
  • It was lampooned in the 1996 Pauly Shore movie Bio-Dome.
    — Diana Budds, Curbed, 11 July 2019
  • Roem has an idea for a title that would lampoon the charge.
    — Joe Garofoli, SFChronicle.com, 19 June 2018
  • Those lampooned usually have stood in the way of true love.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2019
  • That Vladimir Putin, in full hockey gear, can lampoon the Comey debacle from across the globe.
    — Peter Savodnik, The Hive, 12 May 2017
  • Last month, leaked footage of a closed-door speech by Turnbull showed him lampooning Trump.
    — Matthew Brockett, Bloomberg.com, 16 July 2017
  • To be fair, The Simpsons has a history of lampooning all parts of the election process.
    — Esquire, 4 Nov. 2016
  • Starved of choice, Egyptians have taken to lampooning the process.
    — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • There’s no shortage of shows that lampoon the president, the White House and other leaders across the globe.
    — Jeanne Jakle, ExpressNews.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The genre is ripe for lampooning all the Disney animals-on-a-journey films.
    — Chris Lee, Vulture, 23 June 2023
  • The strip, which lampoons office culture, first appeared in 1989.
    — David Lieb, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2023
  • This type of imagery dates back centuries, and was used as a racist way to lampoon and exoticize African features.
    — Alyssa Hardy, Teen Vogue, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Art Buchwald once lampooned Spiro Agnew for hitting a man with a tennis ball.
    — Author: Geoff Kennedy, Alaska Dispatch News, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Trump said at that time that the statements from Pyongyang lampooning Pence and threatening nuclear war were a thing of the past.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN, 6 June 2018
  • Daly doesn't mean for Forrest to lampoon your profession.
    — Whitney Friedlander, Esquire, 16 Mar. 2017
  • Hunter clawed his way back 30 years later by lampooning his former self in campy comedies.
    — Gina Piccalo, latimes.com, 9 July 2018
  • First, the coverage has tried to make this all about Nunes, and then to lampoon him as alternatively cagy and clueless.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The book, about a young man from the country who tries to make it in a big city, lampooned postwar German society as crass and commercialized.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The photos were released, in an unusual move, and were lampooned by some social media.
    — Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2018
  • Ordinary Uzbeks, too, feel free to lampoon the campaign and grumble about the political class, without fear of being dragged off in the middle of the night.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Many social media users lampooned the new look, calling it reminiscent of a cheese grater.
    — Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 28 June 2019
  • The brand is a lightning rod for people who sneer at the luxury equipment — prices start at $1,495 — and lampoon its exercise classes.
    — Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Coveralls splotched with black were among the 2011 costumes lampooning BP after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
    — Kevin McGill, The Denver Post, 9 Feb. 2017
  • Cruz defends his crassness as a good-natured way to lampoon liberal foibles.
    — Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Some might call such thinking retro-sexism, reinforcing old stereotypes about women even as the films seek to lampoon them.
    — April Wolfe, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2018
  • But can anyone lampoon her style without relying on it?
    — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
  • But as some critics have pointed out, inviting Spicer to appear at the Emmys to lampoon his former White House role smacks a bit of normalization.
    — Laura Bradley, vanityfair.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • But Medvedev simply made way for Putin to regain the presidency in 2012, leaving Medvedev lampooned on social media as weak and pitiful.
    — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2020
  • His next sketch is an effort at self-lampooning, that backfires as soon as Ibra realises what the writers were trying to do, and kung-fu kicks them into, yes, oblivion.
    — SI.com, 9 Oct. 2019
  • While all of the acts drew cheers, in what has become an annual rite, much of the anticipation in the crowd was what current affairs topic would the lawn mower team select this year to lampoon.
    — Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2018
  • The snark delighted and attracted other commenters like moths to a flame, who began to lampoon me for using upspeak, my liberal use of filler words and for my strong vocal fry.
    — Clarissa Wei, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2023

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