Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "burlesquing"

Lexicographically close words:
burlap; burled; burlesque; burlesqued; burlesques; burletta; burly; burn; burne; burned
  1. They aim at telling a story, or conveying an insinuation, rather than at burlesquing persons.

  2. Manifestly, if the satirist is not burlesquing the feeling of his class, there was plenty of room left for the vigorous freedman who could accept Vespasian's motto that no gain is unsavoury.

  3. Fulkerson, burlesquing the old man's accent, with an impudent wink that made Lindau himself laugh.

  4. At such times she astonished him by taking his most solemn histrionics with flippant incredulity, and even burlesquing them.

  5. Footnote 303: Mr. Douce imagined that this alludes to a common practice at that time among the Puritans of burlesquing the plain chant of the Papists, by adapting vulgar and ludicrous music to psalms and pious compositions.

  6. But this was a tame mummery, compared with the grossness elsewhere allowed in burlesquing religious ceremonies.

  7. There are indications in the old books that the burlesquing pencil was a familiar instrument then among the merry lads of the cities and towns.

  8. He could imagine Garrick burlesquing the whole scene for the entertainment of the Burney girls or the Horneck family.

  9. Gilbert that he should himself set the example of burlesquing his own work.

  10. The business of burlesquing Shakespeare has never, so far as I can see, been taken up in a wholesale or an intentionally irreverent spirit.

  11. We have already seen that, in burlesquing mythology, faerie, and other matters, our comic playwrights have not been able to resist the temptation to introduce occasional travesties of things operatic.

  12. Again, too, he followed his original with some care, burlesquing rather in detail than on broad lines.

  13. His mimicry excelled in burlesquing the episcopate.

  14. My lord’s eyes were fixed on the young spark, Tom Temple, who was burlesquing a Spanish dance in the middle of the salon.

  15. If Alfred had not been so earnest, the scene would have been a laughable one, as it was like burlesquing many similar scenes when the parent addressed the boy in the same words.


  16. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burlesquing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.