satire - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • bite: Tony Husband's page - biting satire from the renowned Private Eye cartoonist.
  • write: He wrote 16 satires: only 1 is explicitly about women.
  • set: Under the title Herald Films, we made the film The Complaynt Of Scotland, a political satire set in 1555 for BBC.

Preposition: on

  • politics: The play was a satire on politics, poverty and injustice.
  • web: Welcome to the home of Scottish Episcopal satire on the world-wide web.
  • culture: Simple Simon sets out to be a commentary or satire on contemporary culture.
  • world: A dark satire on the world of warfare, it's thought-provoking without actually taking sides.

Adjective modifier

  • biting: A biting satire on the social aspiration, the play follows two women in their search for respectable husbands.
  • Episcopal: Welcome to the home of Scottish Episcopal satire on the world-wide web.
  • scathing: The idea of a scathing religious satire on BBC is now unthinkable.
  • witty: It is a witty, malicious satire of the English literary world.
  • hilarious: The Shysters bloody ' My Bloody Valentine ' was a hilarious romantic satire.
  • savage: Comedy doesn't get much blacker than this savage satire on terrorism.

Modifies a noun

  • boom: Beyond The Fringe is staged and a satire boom begins.
  • magazine: Animal House was the inaugural film venture for the American satire magazine National Lampoon.
  • show: The Scottish Parliament has spawned its first satire show.
  • website: Selected sites from the category Medical: 1. Q Fever A medical humor and satire website for healthcare professionals.
  • site: Long running and highly successful US news satire site.

Noun used with modifier

  • television: What - Poliakoff essentially speculates - would have happened had the 1960s boom in television satire arrived a quarter of a century earlier... ?
  • news: Comedy Avenue Drives humor to the edge with outrageous news satire.

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