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How to use lampoon in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, verb

Lampoon means a written attack or other work ridiculing a person, group, or institution; especially, a satirical one. Example: “Bart Simpson's stock phrase "I didn't do it" was once lampooned on the show itself.”

Examples of lampoon by meaning

verbTo satirize or poke fun at.

  • The original phrase was frequently lampooned in subsequent years, becoming strong enough in popular culture that the variations in place of ‘drugs’ probably didn’t take long to appear at all.2009 June 24, “this is your brain on X”, in The Snowclones Database
  • Her tone shift involved former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton lampooning their fellow ex-president as a figure of ridicule.2024 August 26, Stephen Collinson, “Trump’s personal attacks aren’t just who he is. They’re his strategy”, in CNN

More sentences with lampoon

  • Bart Simpson's stock phrase "I didn't do it" was once lampooned on the show itself.From the entry stock phrase
  • Isis, a student publication, lampooned Australians as good-for-nothings who badly needed education.2010, Thomas J. Schaeper, Kathleen Schaeper, “Yanks and Brits”, in Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite, New…. From the entry good-for-nothing
  • He was a master of the lampoon, a wagger-pagger-bagger need never be a waste paper basket again.2009, Peter [J. M.] McEwan, “Early Days”, in To Catch the Moon from the Bottom of the Sea: A Memoir, Ballater, Aberdeenshire: Glengarden…. From the entry wagger-pagger-bagger
  • The hour-long (and far too slow-paced) show: Malice in Wonderland, by lampooning, lapidating S.1959 January 26, “Top of the Week”, in Time Magazine. From the entry lapidate
  • The little paper contained none of the customary lampoons on Bloods and Masters.1919, Arnold Lunn, Loose Ends. From the entry Olympic
  • Jokey, often bawdy, frequently satirical, they employed rural techniques in an urban setting, gently lampooning country ways through a city sophistication.1985, Paul Oliver, “Black Music: ‘Sales Tax on It’: Race Records in the New Deal Years”, in Stephen W. Baskerville, Ralph Willett…. From the entry hokum
  • If it was a dark, South Park-ian lampoon of social propaganda, it didn’t work due to the misjudged style choice and incompetent animation.2023, Ben Mitchell, Independent Animation: Developing, Producing and Distributing Your Animated Films, 2nd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN. From the entry South Park-ian
  • Senators, derided by the likes of Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and bond guru Bill Gross, and lampooned by late-night talk show hosts.2003 September 15, Jeremy Kahn, “The Man Who Would Have Us Bet On Terrorism—Not To Mention Discard Democracy And Cryogenically Freeze Our…. From the entry viewquake
  • Derided, lampooned and long since consigned to the dustbin of aesthetic history, the art of Soviet Socialist Realism has not enjoyed a happy afterlife following the collapse of communism.2009 October 24, Vanessa Thorpe, “New exhibition in Berlin brings forgotten Soviet art back to reality”, in The Observer. From the entry socialist realism

Meaning of lampoon

  1. noun A written attack or other work ridiculing a person, group, or institution; especially, a satirical one.
  2. verb To satirize or poke fun at.

Full definition of lampoon

Questions about lampoon in a sentence

How do you use lampoon in a sentence?
Lampoon is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Bart Simpson's stock phrase "I didn't do it" was once lampooned on the show itself.”
What is a short sentence with lampoon?
“Isis, a student publication, lampooned Australians as good-for-nothings who badly needed education.”
What does lampoon mean?
Lampoon means a written attack or other work ridiculing a person, group, or institution; especially, a satirical one.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lampoon (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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