Synonyms of sending up

sending up

verb

present participle of send up

as in parodying

to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of

the sitcom sends up the "trials and tribulations" of the rich and famous

Synonyms & Similar Words

• parodying
• imitating
• mocking
• doing
• mimicking
• spoofing
• travestying
• caricaturing
• burlesquing
• playing
• playing up
• performing
• simulating
• putting on
• enlarging (on or upon)
• emulating
• reproducing
• ridiculing
• fleshing (out)
• satirizing
• pretending
• deriding
• lampooning
• parroting
• replicating
• pasquinading
• monkeying
• gibing
• aping
• enhancing
• duplicating
• stretching
• acting
• elaborating
• padding
• feigning
• exaggerating
• expanding
• shamming
• embroidering
• personating
• dissembling
• counterfeiting
• embellishing
• faking
• amplifying
• overdrawing
• miming
• overstating
• magnifying
• pantomiming
• copycatting
• impersonating

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of sending up

Jake Johnson, Mary Steenburgen, and Ed Harris lead this diverting little comedy sending up the real-life court wars between the sports. — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 24 July 2026

According to a study commissioned by the Auto Care Association, 51% of independent repair shops reported sending up to five vehicles per month to a dealer due to vehicle data restrictions. — Joshua Hong, Fortune, 19 July 2026

Beehive is more delicate, sending up painterly tendrils that form a thin scrim in front of the landscape of volcanic sediment, evergreens, and puffy cumulus clouds. — Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 July 2026

Its most dramatic attack occurred last week, when hundreds of drones overwhelmed Moscow’s air defenses and hit refineries and storage tanks, sending up black plumes of smoke that darkened the sky. — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 28 June 2026

The first was used on a pair of test versions of the Amazon Leo satellites, previously known as Project Kuiper, in October 2023 with eight more Atlas V launches sending up 27, then 29 operational satellites at a time on missions launched since April 2025. — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 June 2026

Fighter jets roared overhead, and air strikes pounded the surrounding hillsides, sending up thick plumes of acrid smoke. — Euan Ward, New Yorker, 29 May 2026

In the near term, NASA plans to launch its next Artemis mission in 2027, sending up four astronauts in an Orion capsule atop an SLS rocket to rendezvous in Earth orbit with SpaceX's lander and an alternative being built by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin. — William Harwood, CBS News, 22 May 2026

Columbine prefers to grow in part sun or shade, sending up its nodding, bi-colored flowers each spring. — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 15 May 2026