BURLESQUE in a Sentence

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In Spaceballs, we see Rick Moranis burlesque Darth Vader of Star Wars, outrageously parodying Vader's stiff walk and hollow voice.

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 Meanings and Examples of BURLESQUE
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burlesque
 v.  give an imitation that ridicules; imitate mockingly or humorously
Classic Sentence:
1  He rose to his feet and, hand on heart, made her a burlesque bow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
2  In fact, it was so perfect that it verged on the burlesque, though Pittypat did not see it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
3  Mr. Schnarken was at various high moments a cook, a life-guard, a burlesque actor, and a sculptor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  After my experience I should consider it too much of a burlesque to go to church and take a wife.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 3 The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin
5  And then followed a burlesque narrative of how this gentleman had almost been married two days before.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: IV
6  There was contempt in his manner as in his eyes, contempt overlaid with an air of courtesy that somehow burlesqued their own manners.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence:
1  In Spaceballs, we see Rick Moranis burlesque Darth Vader of Star Wars, outrageously parodying Vader's stiff walk and hollow voice.
2  The caricature he drew yesterday emphasized a personal weakness of the people he burlesqued.