How to Use spoof in a Sentence

spoof

1 of 2 verb

• Bad actors can still use trick spelling to spoof domain names.
  — Stu Sjouwerman, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• That may send a very chilling message to those who try to spoof the markets.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• Police said the scammer had spoofed the number to make the call seem authentic.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 17 Jan. 2020
• Its not easy spoofing a genre that virtually spoofs itself these days.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 4 June 2026
• And of course Groucho wore one here and there, spoofing it in his rich, lightning-fast schtick as well.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• Some of the earliest victims used Gmail accounts for work, which were easy and free to spoof.
  — Reeves Wiedeman, Vulture, 17 Aug. 2021
• The cryptography involved in this process ensures that the proof can’t be spoofed.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 12 May 2023
• When missiles and attack drones are aimed at Russian sites, they are often spoofed or shot down.
  — Eric Schmidt, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2024
• This is also not the first time Kramer has used AI to spoof a politician’s voice.
  — Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
• Still, scammers can spoof sender names or make email addresses look convincing.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2026
• All that's required to spoof a signature is to have a public key or key ID.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 14 June 2018
• The Iran war has led to sustained spoofing across the Persian Gulf.
  — Zak Kassas, The Conversation, 23 June 2026
• This sketch essentially spoofs his brand partnerships and bland style.
  — Andy Hoglund, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Nov. 2025
• To trick people to pick up the phone, crooks also spoof numbers with local area codes to hide their true location.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 8 July 2019
• The calls come in from an unknown caller ID (though even cell phone numbers are easy to spoof these days).
  — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
• This is the first segment since last season's Mulaney spoof with The Birds.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 21 Jan. 2022
• For mariners at sea, spoofing can have serious consequences.
  — Anna Raymaker, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2026
• As a result, 20% of these spoofing victims have been forced to disconnect their phone.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 14 June 2019
• An able tracer of provenance, Walpole delighted in spoofing the past.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2018
• Thirteen years have passed since the last Scary Movie, which means there’s been a decade-plus of horror ripe for spoofing.
  — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026
• And, importantly, this kind of detection method can’t be avoided or spoofed.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Apr. 2026
• One common tactic is account spoofing.
  — Marin Independent Journal, Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2025
• Cue parts in the less-than-serious Top Gun and the spy spoof Top Secret!
  — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 7 July 2021
• To this day, one of her favorite parts of the ad campaign has been seeing all the ways people have spoofed it, especially drag queens.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2024
• Being spoofed by @MADmagazine was one of the great honors of my acting career.
  — Patrick May, The Mercury News, 5 July 2019
• This helps prevent criminals from hijacking phone numbers or spoofing calls and texts.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 Dec. 2025
• Plot details and the title for the follow-up to the Star Wars-spoofing feature have not yet been shared.
  — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
• The more that people know about legitimate providers, how scams will spoof these providers and their role in resisting those scams, the better.
  — Lucia Milică, Forbes, 21 May 2021
• VPNs can also be used to spoof your location online.
  — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 1 June 2026
• And because many of the sketches recur from episode to episode, some of them eventually spoof multiple things.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2023

spoof

2 of 2 noun

• There also are memes out there and some amusing video spoofs, too.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2023
• Vintage boy-band spoof in which Kev says the quiet part out loud.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2021
• Way better than dusty game show and dinner party spoofs.
  — Andy Hoglund, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Jan. 2026
• Kam Patterson played the role of Irvin in the spoof.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas Morning News, 18 Jan. 2026
• Despite the speed, a spoof card or passport won’t deceive the system.
  — Rene Hendrikse, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• But this is no sloppy, bulldozing-through-the-classics spoof.
  — Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
• The choice to employ Plaza as the face of the plant-milk spoof was calibrated, of course.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2023
• The spoof account was still up on Wednesday, with nine followers.
  — Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2023
• What did the cast think of SNL's spoof of the season 2 finale?
  — Morgan Baila, refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2021
• In the years since it was first released in 1984, the spoof has become a cult classic.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• The new series from Netflix is a strange and slightly strained woke spoof of wokeness.
  — Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• The maneuver is a spoof on Hailey's viral phone case from her beauty line, rhode.
  — Catherine Santino, People.com, 18 Aug. 2025
• But when Max takes pride in rhyming vodka with babka in a Purim play spoof song, the master shoots him down.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
• But Yoon’s novel is no spoof; the survivor’s panic is too palpable for that.
  — Ilana Masad, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2022
• Hilarious spy movie spoof might be the best work of Myers’ career.
  — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 1 May 2023
• In one, Efron and Alba acted as a feuding couple in an action-movie spoof.
  — Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 18 Aug. 2021
• Some of the most comedic moments included a spoof of The Wheel of Fortune.
  — Chioma Nnadi, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2022
• Here a narrative in tweets, there in emails, here a satire of literary tropes, there a spoof of Hollywood.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2022
• Agarn in the 1960s spoof of Western frontier TV shows, has died.
  — CBS News, 8 July 2022
• For instance, think back to when everyone was doing spoofs about titles that dealt with women in trains or in windows or in peril.
  — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
• That movie was an instant cult classic, a terrific spoof of modern-day music celebrity that was well received by critics.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
• Stephen Colbert nailed that pop culture triple Lindy with a pitch-perfect Taylor Swift spoof.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2022
• The 2000 film was a spoof of multiple Halloween horror flicks wrapped into one.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2023
• Watch Fonda’s spoof on Kidman’s AMC ad below.
  — Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• This is a hilarious spoof of the most recent season of The White Lotus.
  — Andy Hoglund updated January 22, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2023
• The spoof was also inspired by the actor getting into hot water with the anime community last year.
  — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 6 June 2026
• The country singer and late-night host debuted their spoof on Tuesday night’s episode of The Tonight Show.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2021
• Liveness detection verifies that a biometric sample, such as a face scan or voice clip, is from a real person, not a spoof.
  — Mohamed Lazzouni, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
• Another spoof, this time of golden-age Broadway musicals.
  — ABC News, 7 June 2026
• Heidi Gardner is John, the security guard playing quarters with him, in a spoof on one of the show's best scenes.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 16 May 2021