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Parodying is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Parodying in a sentence

Parodying | Parody

Parodying meaning

present participle and gerund of parody

Using Parodying

  • The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of parody
  • In the example corpus, parodying often appears in combinations such as: parodying the, by parodying, parodying his.

Context around Parodying

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 27.2 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 10 middle, 7 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Parodying

  • In this selection, "parodying" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, remixes, memes, whilst, ghost, goldberg and rose stand out and add context to how "parodying" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include and even parodying evita in and but parodying the addition. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "parodying" sits close to words such as actinium, adherent and adipose, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with parodying

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Well done parodying a buffoon, I GOLed (guffawed out loud). (10 words)

No Bari: co-opting or parodying lyrics is part of pop culture. (12 words)

Was it trying to make an actual point and kind of parodying Joe Arpaio? (14 words)

Janine Nabers and Donald Glover's hit show takes a jab at stan culture by parodying a specific fandom, following the unruly heights one fan, Dre (Dominique Fishback), takes to get close to her favorite pop star and deal with her haters. (42 words)

That was one of the many gags on Smigel’s half-hour Fox special “Let’s Be Real,” which featured puppets parodying Rose and Lauer, as well as Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Mike Pence, Rudy Giuliani, Kanye West and Nancy Pelosi. (41 words)

The Daily Show – first hosted by Craig Kilborn, then Stewart, then South African comedian Trevor Noah – has long skewered the left and right by parodying TV news shows and playing it absolutely straight, no matter how absurd. (37 words)

Was it trying to make an actual point and kind of parodying Joe Arpaio? (14 words)

Example sentences (20)

In response, social media has recreated this scene as a meme, twisting Shaun’s line “I am a surgeon” into (as in the fish) along with other remixes parodying the scene.

Janine Nabers and Donald Glover's hit show takes a jab at stan culture by parodying a specific fandom, following the unruly heights one fan, Dre (Dominique Fishback), takes to get close to her favorite pop star and deal with her haters.

When a movie succeeds at parodying a genre while also belonging to that genre, marketing it can ultimately prove difficult.

Either way, the post went viral, and social media users posted of memes parodying and lauding the fictitious Mossad agent allegedly responsible for the demise of Raisi.

In the course of its knotty, ultimately pointless plot, this underrated film managed to satirize gentrification whilst parodying ghost movies, werewolf films, and cop flicks—an impressive feat by any measure.

The Daily Show – first hosted by Craig Kilborn, then Stewart, then South African comedian Trevor Noah – has long skewered the left and right by parodying TV news shows and playing it absolutely straight, no matter how absurd.

According to Sowore, former President Jonathan has agreed to drop charges and stop the prosecution of Olushola Babatunde, social media influencer for opening a Twitter account parodying his name.

But parodying the addition of a plus sign to a brand name reflects how it has become the go-to symbol for media conglomerates when they christen their emerging video-on-demand streaming businesses.

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Gill made a name for himself during the Attitude Era by parodying Goldberg, who was the biggest star in WCW at the time.

That was one of the many gags on Smigel’s half-hour Fox special “Let’s Be Real,” which featured puppets parodying Rose and Lauer, as well as Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Mike Pence, Rudy Giuliani, Kanye West and Nancy Pelosi.

The maestro’s music has spawned generations of film music directors looking up to him in their compositions, or plain copying and parodying the originals.

The videos were decidedly tongue-in-cheek, almost parodying Instagram as a medium (“look at all my toilet paper,” “I still have cute nails”), that provided viewers with easy-to-follow recipes.

Netflix movie adds a story and many more self-parodying celebs to the comedian’s tightrope walk of a talk show.

Parodying the robotically scripted nature of most celebrity interviews, it helped prove that web-only content could be as influential as anything on regular TV—something that Netflix would soon prove on a much larger scale.

Walshe is a whiz for this kind of thing: she yanks off the plastic veneer of commercial culture by parodying then systematically dismembering the archetypes.

No Bari: co-opting or parodying lyrics is part of pop culture.

The final season involves Roseanne (Roseanne Barr) partying with the wild “Absolutely Fabulous” duo, fighting train-hijacking terrorists and even parodying “Evita” in a fantasy sequence.

Was it trying to make an actual point and kind of parodying Joe Arpaio?

Well done parodying a buffoon, I GOLed (guffawed out loud).

Also, in half of the "Potter Puppet Pals" videos Dumbledore is using the exclamation "Alas!" in an apparently incorrect place, parodying Rowling's love for unusual words.

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Common combinations with parodying

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "parodying" in a sentence?
An example: "In response, social media has recreated this scene as a meme, twisting Shaun’s line “I am a surgeon” into (as in the fish) along with other remixes parodying the scene." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "parodying" from authentic English texts.
What does "parodying" mean?
Parodying means: present participle and gerund of parody
How many example sentences with "parodying" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "parodying", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.