hold up to ridicule
Example Sentences
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"Who's Blackie!" said the boy, repeating the question, as if to hold up to ridicule the absurd ignorance which it implied.
From Geordie's Tryst A Tale of Scottish Life by Rae, Mrs. Milne
It does fall within the scope of this description to hold up to ridicule opinions, which others esteem holy.
From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Hottinger, Johann Jakob
Or did he seek to hold up to ridicule all manifestations of human enthusiasm in general, military heroism in particular?
From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich
Many of these reviews took occasion to pick out and hold up to ridicule the illogical sentences, the grammatical solecisms, and general imperfections of technique which marked and disfigured the Siege of Corinth.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
"You shouldn't hold up to ridicule the shepherd of your soul."
From The Undying Past by Sudermann, Hermann
