skewer

Example Sentences

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Since they formed in 2019, the artists have gained an international reputation for employing the slick tropes of marketing and fashion to playfully skewer consumerism and supply-chain systems.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

The play, which is having its Los Angeles premiere at Pasadena Playhouse, seems like it could have been commissioned to skewer this destructive, benighted and completely mortifying anti-science moment.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2025

Every political campaign needs a good slogan – a snappy phrase to energise voters and skewer opponents.

From BBC • Jul. 10, 2025

It was fun to see the show just skewer the whole idea of endings and closure and sticking the landing.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2024

Kingshaw found a long, straight stick, and began to peel it, to make a skewer.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill