How to Use send-up in a Sentence

send-up

1 of 2 noun
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  • The 2010 buddy cop comedy is a send-up of the entire genre.
    — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Brosnan attempts a send-up of his most famous role as a sleek and suave action man.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 7 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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, 16 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • His love for all his characters is palpable across the board, even in the wry, almost surrealist bent of his soap-opera send-up Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.
    — Vulture, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The Blackening is both a send-up and an ode to horror films and Black culture, embracing and skewering stereotypes without a need or desire to let white audiences in on the joke.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 16 June 2023
  • The bit then turns into a send-up of their multiverse adventure, with Colbert eventually bursting through a wall to greet his adoring fans as Scheinert and Kwan cheer him on.
    — Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 6 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Just as Harris is, among other things, satirizing minstrelsy, Barney is doing a slathering, filterless, singe-your-eyebrows-off send-up of the white lady who can do and say whatever and get away with it.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2024
  • What helped was Downey playing the character, who's mocked mercilessly by his Black co-star, as a cleverly satirical, and absolutely hilarious, send-up of his own A-list celebrity and Hollywood's casting practices.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Mad magazine, with its wry, sometimes pointed send-ups of politics and culture, was essential reading for teens and preteens during the baby-boom era and inspiration for countless future comedians.
    — CBS News, 11 Apr. 2023
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send up

2 of 2 verb
  • But her most impressive play of the day was the pass that sent up the final goal in the 77th minute.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2023
  • The company plans to send up two more flights this year.
    — Dallas News, 20 July 2021
  • The fire now doubled in height, sending up thick, black plumes of smoke that rose above the cliff.
    — Nathan Thrall, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Mostly just to send up the idea of a household run like a restaurant.
    — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 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
  • Netflix will then send up to 10 random discs based on the movies in the subscriber’s queue.
    — Jay Peters, The Verge, 22 Aug. 2023
  • When the weather is wet, these fungi that grow in the lawn year-round send up mushrooms.
    — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Buildings had been felled by airstrikes, sending up plumes of smoke.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Sotomayor, in contrast, does not miss a chance to send up a flare.
    — Ariane De Vogue, CNN, 22 Oct. 2021
  • 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 rocket first flew in 2018 sending up Elon Musk’s Tesla on a trip out past Mars.
    — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 24 June 2024
  • Fires also send up plumes of soot that screen sunlight and add to warming.
    — Emma Bryce, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The same goes for sending up to 720p videos on the app, which became widely available last week.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Pulling it does no good because any root left in the ground sends up another plant.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 7 July 2023
  • Most of those are a smaller version of the satellite that SpaceX was able to send up in batches of more than 50 at a time.
    — Tribune Content Agency, al, 22 July 2023
  • The mothers uttered sighs of relief and sent up quick prayers that the war might end soon or that a ceasefire would be reached.
    — Maram Humaid, Harper's Magazine, 9 Oct. 2023
  • That means that half are cut one year and have to send up new shoots from ground level one spring, and the other half gets the same treatment the next spring.
    — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Apr. 2021
  • It is now reduced to piles of rubble, some of which continue to send up thin smoke.
    — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 25 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • He is now being sent up north to Israel’s border with Lebanon.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The blast sent up a plume of black smoke and a fireball that was large enough to reach a transformer on a power line, damaging it.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The woman has emailed at least two or three times per day for the last seven months, sometimes sending up to 20 emails per day.
    — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2024
  • In dire need of fuel and food, the crew finally sent up a distress signal.
    — Dera Menra Sijabat, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Authorities sent up drones to watch for sharks, the station said.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 28 May 2024
  • The scooter was lodged under the truck, and sent up sparks as it was scraped against the pavement, witnesses told police.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 2 Mar. 2024
  • As the song reaches its apex, Nettles sends up some soaring vocals as Rucker holds down the melody.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 29 Apr. 2024
  • Some of these organisms, living as a network of threads hidden in the soil, may not have sent up a fruiting body in years.
    — Rachel Bujalski Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 11 June 2024
  • The space station’s urine recycling system broke earlier this week and NASA had to make room to send up a new pump.
    — Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 1 June 2024
  • Occasionally the rootstock revolts, so to speak, and sends up its own shoots.
    — Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 29 June 2024
  • Fire officials told people in the area to stay indoors and close windows, doors and ventilation as the blaze sent up a massive plume of black smoke.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 12 Feb. 2024

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