MOCK in a Sentence

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Anyone inclined to mock this suggestion should note that the armed services are perhaps the most respected institution in Britain today.

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 Meanings and Examples of MOCK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mock
 v.  treat with ridicule or contempt; mimic; frustrate hopes of
Classic Sentence: (82 in 6 pages)
1  Occasionally when the slight breeze veered, puffs of smoke from the long barbecue pits floated over the crowd and were greeted with squeals of mock dismay from the ladies and violent flappings of palmetto fans.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  She looked up at him and saw that his mouth was pulled down at the corners in mock sympathy, even while he swished the fan.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  "I beg your pardon," said Rhett with mock humility.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  Had any other man spoken so, Scarlett would have dismissed such protestations contemptuously as mock modesty and a bid for praise.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
5  They were looking on the state they loved, seeing it trampled by the enemy, rascals making a mock of the law, their former slaves a menace, their men disfranchised, their women insulted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
6  "I hear you couldn't even wait two weeks for me," he said and gave a mock sigh.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  Rhett's eight months' service with the Confederacy was known only to Scarlett, for Rhett had begged her, with mock fear, not to reveal his "shame" to anyone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  He flung up a hand in mock horror and his black brows went up in the old sardonic crescents.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
9  While she waited she ceased to pity and began to mock herself.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  He laughed with Myrtle, jogged her elbow when she was filling cups, made deep mock bows to the waitresses as they came up for coffee.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
11  So in reality it was a mock adventure; the game was fixed for me by chance, as it probably was for many a dragon-slayer.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
12  Now he had become a first lieutenant in a smart regiment, so he could mock at everything more becomingly in uniform.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
13  "Dr. Grant is ill," said she, with mock solemnity.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
14  "Sir, you do me honour," was Crawford's answer, with a bow of mock gravity.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
15  'Delighted to see you looking so well, my dear,' said the Jew, bowing with mock humility.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence:
1  The make-up woman daubed mock blood on Jeremy.
2  He went to church only to mock.
3  It's rude to mock at a foreign student's mistakes in English.
4  Anyone inclined to mock this suggestion should note that the armed services are perhaps the most respected institution in Britain today.
5  What we mock is his using that as a catchall excuse for any personal failing or ridiculous policy proposal.
6  He made the other boys laugh by mocking the way the teacher spoke.
7  I thought you were mocking me.
8  Psy's song "Gangnam Style," which mocks the consumerism of a rich Seoul suburb, and hit horse-riding-style dance went viral on video-sharing website YouTube.
9  The play mocks the pretensions of the new middle class.