He is especially happy inparodying the poetry of the tragic dramatist Euripides.
One of the latest writers of the Old Comedy was Anaximandrides, who cast a reflection on the state of Athens in parodying a line of Euripides.
Parodying their exaggerated logical arrangements, their scrupulous divisions and subdivisions, the Talmud distinguishes seven classes of Pharisees, one of whom only is worthy of that name.
While on the way to carry out this Divine command Satan met him, and (parodying Job iv.
I will mock you the "Mill in the Forest," or any other descriptive piece, with coloured words, parodying your orchestra with graphic nonsense.
Nature is the universal playmate, perpetually parodying herself in miniature for the benefit of those who love to amuse themselves with her toys.
A swift turn around an unexpected corner brought my heart into my mouth so suddenly that it knocked the cigar out of my teeth and when I collected myself my thoughts were parodying Dickens instead of Byron.
In fact, as I think of the seeding and the trees, I feel like parodying Shakespeare and protesting lest "This great sea of jobs rushing upon me O'erbear the shore of my mortality, And drown me with their sweetness.
Among the Romans this form of literary composition made its appearance at the period of the Decline, and all the power of Nero could not prevent Persius from parodying his verses.
Parodying Terence's lines, he says: "I am a man, and all that concerns woman interests me.
Then he returns home, and exclaims, parodying Victor Hugo's celebrated lines: "How proud a man is to call himself a Frenchman when he has looked at England.
Perhaps it was this fact which caused my illustrious valet and factotum to write some verses parodying the nursery rhyme of "Hush-a-bye baby, upon the tree top.
So then, if I find one of the Initiated betraying and parodying the Mysteries of the two Goddesses, and if I protest and denounce him, the transgression will be mine?
Footnote 6: The Retrospective eulogist was deeply hurt by Cleveland's parodying this, and of course drags in Milton once more.
Now there is considerable difference between 'Mark Antony' and Lycidas: nor did Cleveland, so far as we know, dream of parodying his own poem on King.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parodying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
