sent up; sending up; sends up
Synonyms
Examples of send-up in a Sentence
Verb
the sitcom sends up the “trials and tribulations” of the rich and famous
Recent Examples on the Web
John Brummett, arkansasonline.com, 17 Apr. 2024
Built by a tiny team of five developers in just six weeks, Content Warning has quickly become gaming’s latest trending topic by being a send-up of the very players it was made for: game streamers aiming to go viral and the fans who love to watch them.
—Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 10 Apr. 2024
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
Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 29 Apr. 2024
Before October 7, commercial vendors and aid groups were able to send up to 500 trucks into Gaza daily.
—Hardin Lang, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2024
In turn, a spike in demand for car repairs sent up the price of such services, which led to ballooning insurance rates, analysts added.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 26 Jan. 2024
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
Noun
And, for the record, note that Sanders responded to the audit with a hip-hop video send-up arrogantly scoffing.
—John Brummett, arkansasonline.com, 17 Apr. 2024
Built by a tiny team of five developers in just six weeks, Content Warning has quickly become gaming’s latest trending topic by being a send-up of the very players it was made for: game streamers aiming to go viral and the fans who love to watch them.
—Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 10 Apr. 2024
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
Verb
As the song reaches its apex, Nettles sends up some soaring vocals as Rucker holds down the melody.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 29 Apr. 2024
Before October 7, commercial vendors and aid groups were able to send up to 500 trucks into Gaza daily.
—Hardin Lang, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2024
In turn, a spike in demand for car repairs sent up the price of such services, which led to ballooning insurance rates, analysts added.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 26 Jan. 2024
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
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