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Example sentences for "satirises"

Lexicographically close words:
satiric; satirical; satirically; satirise; satirised; satirising; satirist; satirists; satirize; satirized
  1. Chaucer satirises the dancing of Oxford as he did the French of Stratford at Bow.

  2. Chaucer here satirises the fashion of the time, which piled bulky and heavy waddings on ladies' heads.

  3. No man satirises the god he believes in, and no man believes in the god he satirises.

  4. When the Atheist examines, denounces, or satirises the gods, he is not dealing with persons but with ideas.

  5. The second part, in genuine Romantic fashion, satirises the first part and the characters delineated in it.

  6. Here Sheridan satirises a different class of tragedy from that which Buckingham dealt with.

  7. Kratinus satirises the work for being slowly accomplished, saying "He builds in speeches, but he does no work.

  8. His lisp is mentioned by Aristophanes in the verses in which he satirises Theorus, in which Alkibiades calls him Theolus, for he pronounced the letter r like l.

  9. The books which it satirises are now almost unknown; many who have heard of Amadis de Gaul have never read it, and still less have they read all the lineage of the Amadis.

  10. If the first of Hosea's epigrams satirises Israel's foreign relations, the second, with equal brevity and wit, hits off the temper and constitution of society at home.

  11. While Isaiah chiefly satirises the fashions of the town and the intrigues of the court, Micah scourges the avarice of the landowner and the injustice which oppresses the peasant.

  12. Pope also satirises the vanity and meanness of his disposition in the well-known character of Bufo.

  13. He embarked from Marseilles for Genoa in December, 1700, having as his companion Edward Wortley Montague, whom Pope satirises under the various names of Shylock, Worldly, and Avidien.

  14. It is quite true that Wilson, who, like all men of humour, must have known his own foibles, not unfrequently satirises them; but it is clear from his other work and from his private letters that they were his foibles.

  15. When he satirises persons, he goes so far away from their real personalities that the libel ceases to be libellous.


  16. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "satirises" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.