sent up; sending up; sends up
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Examples of send-up in a Sentence
Verb
the sitcom sends up the “trials and tribulations” of the rich and famous
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Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2024
Castle takes ample advantage of the jokes that hang at the expense of tropes that have endured since Whale's send-up, and the ones that have emerged in the interim.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2023
The vibe is one of camp send-up of Hollywood narcissism, but irony and egotism are blended like a fine Bordeaux.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
Just as Harris is, among other things, satirizing minstrelsy, Barney is doing a slathering, filterless, singe-your-eyebrows-off send-up of the white lady who can do and say whatever and get away with it.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2024
His love for all his characters is palpable across the board, even in the wry, almost surrealist bent of his soap-opera send-up Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.
—Vulture, 6 Dec. 2023
Opioids have even played a key role in comedies; AMC’s sitcom send-up Kevin Can F**k Himself, for instance, included a plot about orchestrating an accidental overdose.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2023
The brand’s spring-summer 2024 collection, Night Terror at the Opera, was held on September 12 at La MaMa, a storied arts center with, fittingly, an emphasis on experimental theater; the show manifested as a send-up of fashion week.
—Jake Smith, Glamour, 13 Sep. 2023
At once a brilliant send-up of the horror genre and a loving homage, this film will satisfy enthusiasts and dabblers alike.
—Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 28 Aug. 2023
Peter Eavis, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024
So the space shuttle was able to essentially send up eyeglasses to correct the vision.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
Buildings had been felled by airstrikes, sending up plumes of smoke.
—Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
Officials also sent up a drone to monitor the area from the air as neighbors continued to report sightings of Laws.
—Stepheny Price, Fox News, 6 Mar. 2024
Environmental scientists worry that harvesting nodules will send up plumes of sediment into the water and kill anything living on the seafloor, such as brittle stars and bizarre sea cucumber species like the one known as the gummy squirrel.
—Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
That, scientists say, would trigger a collapse that could send up to 20 years’ worth of global carbon emissions into the atmosphere, an enormous blow to the struggle to contain climate change.
—Manuela Andreoni, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2024
Bags are offloaded in the same room where they’re put onto carts and then sent up to baggage claim.
—USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
The Macan 4 isn't a slouch and can send up to 402 hp (300 kW) and 479 lb-ft (650 Nm) to its wheels, so launching up a highway on-ramp to 60 mph should take 4.9 seconds.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2024
Noun
What helped was Downey playing the character, who's mocked mercilessly by his Black co-star, as a cleverly satirical, and absolutely hilarious, send-up of his own A-list celebrity and Hollywood's casting practices.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2024
Castle takes ample advantage of the jokes that hang at the expense of tropes that have endured since Whale's send-up, and the ones that have emerged in the interim.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2023
The vibe is one of camp send-up of Hollywood narcissism, but irony and egotism are blended like a fine Bordeaux.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
Just as Harris is, among other things, satirizing minstrelsy, Barney is doing a slathering, filterless, singe-your-eyebrows-off send-up of the white lady who can do and say whatever and get away with it.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2024
His love for all his characters is palpable across the board, even in the wry, almost surrealist bent of his soap-opera send-up Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.
—Vulture, 6 Dec. 2023
Opioids have even played a key role in comedies; AMC’s sitcom send-up Kevin Can F**k Himself, for instance, included a plot about orchestrating an accidental overdose.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2023
The brand’s spring-summer 2024 collection, Night Terror at the Opera, was held on September 12 at La MaMa, a storied arts center with, fittingly, an emphasis on experimental theater; the show manifested as a send-up of fashion week.
—Jake Smith, Glamour, 13 Sep. 2023
At once a brilliant send-up of the horror genre and a loving homage, this film will satisfy enthusiasts and dabblers alike.
—Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 28 Aug. 2023
Verb
Ed Elkins, chief marketing officer at Norfolk Southern, said that the company sends up to 1.5 million tons of coal through Lamberts Point a month and that absorbing Baltimore’s coal could increase that volume by as much as 35 percent.
—Peter Eavis, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024
So the space shuttle was able to essentially send up eyeglasses to correct the vision.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
Buildings had been felled by airstrikes, sending up plumes of smoke.
—Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
Officials also sent up a drone to monitor the area from the air as neighbors continued to report sightings of Laws.
—Stepheny Price, Fox News, 6 Mar. 2024
Environmental scientists worry that harvesting nodules will send up plumes of sediment into the water and kill anything living on the seafloor, such as brittle stars and bizarre sea cucumber species like the one known as the gummy squirrel.
—Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
That, scientists say, would trigger a collapse that could send up to 20 years’ worth of global carbon emissions into the atmosphere, an enormous blow to the struggle to contain climate change.
—Manuela Andreoni, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2024
Bags are offloaded in the same room where they’re put onto carts and then sent up to baggage claim.
—USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
The Macan 4 isn't a slouch and can send up to 402 hp (300 kW) and 479 lb-ft (650 Nm) to its wheels, so launching up a highway on-ramp to 60 mph should take 4.9 seconds.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2024
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