Explore Satires through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Satires meaning
plural of satire
Using Satires
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of satire
- In the example corpus, satires often appears in combinations such as: his satires, the satires, of satires.
Context around Satires
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Satires
- In this selection, "satires" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, biting, enjoy, thriller, 109, epistles and dialogue stand out and add context to how "satires" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and biting satires the northern and book of satires that soon. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "satires" sits close to words such as aachen, abayomi and abbots, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with satires
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
According to a medieval French commentary on the Satires: ". (9 words)
Satires The business plan is the subject of many satires. (10 words)
His satires of British aristocratic snobbery—he calls one character the "Noble Refrigerator"—are often popular. (16 words)
A half-decade after Double Indemnity and The Lost Weekend, Billy Wilder made Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Ace in the Hole (1951), noirs that were not so much crime dramas as satires on Hollywood and the news media. (38 words)
By about the 4th century AD the writer of satires came to be known as satyricus; St. Jerome, for example, was called by one of his enemies 'a satirist in prose' ('satyricus scriptor in prosa'). (35 words)
Satires Huxley (right) and Richard Owen inspect a "water baby" in Edward Linley Sambourne 's 1881 illustration Darwin's ideas and Huxley's controversies gave rise to many cartoons and satires. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
F. Muecke, The Satires, 109–10 Meanwhile, he was beginning to interest Octavian's supporters, a gradual process described by him in one of his satires.
Pope, in his Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace (Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue ii, line 73) refers to God granting "To Berkeley every Virtue under Heaven".
Satires Huxley (right) and Richard Owen inspect a "water baby" in Edward Linley Sambourne 's 1881 illustration Darwin's ideas and Huxley's controversies gave rise to many cartoons and satires.
Satires The business plan is the subject of many satires.
But his satires have infiltrated the lexicon of American popular culture precisely because their humor is rooted in a desire to subvert.
Packed with a wide range of news stories and biting satires, the Northern Star was so successful that by 1797 it was selling 4,000 copies.
Funny, dark and timely, this novel is perfect for readers who enjoy satires, immigrant narratives, and surreptitious take-downs of productivity culture.
His dirges and satires are bold and blunt; they swap the indirection of imagery, obtuse or otherwise, for the snap of metre and rhyme.
Joining the ballooning company of thriller-satires parsing the strange lifestyles and illicit pastimes of the superrich — from The Triangle of Sadness enjoys a sense of laidback authenticity.
According to a medieval French commentary on the Satires: ".
A half-decade after Double Indemnity and The Lost Weekend, Billy Wilder made Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Ace in the Hole (1951), noirs that were not so much crime dramas as satires on Hollywood and the news media.
Although there is no assigned theme of the tales this first day, six deal with one person censuring another and four are satires of the Catholic Church.
By about the 4th century AD the writer of satires came to be known as satyricus; St. Jerome, for example, was called by one of his enemies 'a satirist in prose' ('satyricus scriptor in prosa').
By this time, he had attained the status of eques Romanus, Satires 2.7.53 perhaps as a result of his work at the Treasury.
E. Fraenkel, Horace, 14–15 It was about this time that he began writing his Satires and Epodes.
E. Fraenkel, Horace, 15 It signalled his identification with the Octavian regime yet, in the second book of Satires that soon followed, he continued the apolitical stance of the first book.
G. Kiernan V. Kiernan, Horace: Poetics and Politics, 18–19 Horace's Hellenistic background is clear in his Satires, even though the genre was unique to Latin literature.
His most notable literary works were his Fables and Parables (1779), Satires (1779), and poetic letters and religious lyrics, in which the artistry of his poetic language reached its summit.
His satires dealt with common Elizabethan topics, such as corruption in the legal system, mediocre poets, and pompous courtiers.
His satires of British aristocratic snobbery—he calls one character the "Noble Refrigerator"—are often popular.
Common combinations with satires
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- his satires 9×
- the satires 7×
- of satires 5×
- and satires 4×
- satires and 4×
- satires that 3×
- satires the 2×
- satires have 2×
- satires are 2×
- satires of 2×