How to Use meme in a Sentence

meme

noun
  • Counter-memes about the dancers and Fleetwood Mac emerged.
    The Washington Post, cleveland.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Here's a list of some of the best Dance Moms-inspired memes.
    Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 2 July 2019
  • The meme racked up thousands of likes and replies in a matter of days.
    Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 23 Nov. 2022
  • It's been this way every day since the meme's birth in 2013.
    Author: Logan Hill, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2019
  • It’s a running joke at this point (or a meme, as the kids say).
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 8 Nov. 2020
  • One copy of the meme alone was shared more than half a million times.
    Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2019
  • But there are a lot of other things that don’t make sense about the meme.
    Erin Corbett, refinery29.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • And in the ways that memes evolve, some go through a second stage of edits.
    Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 22 May 2018
  • Take a look through the gallery above to see memes, reactions from the premier of the show.
    Daniela Sternitzky-Di Napoli, Houston Chronicle, 28 Oct. 2017
  • The podcast episode that the meme is taken from runs for more than three hours.
    NBC News, 29 Apr. 2022
  • These memes did just enough to drive people to click the share button.
    Claire Wardle, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2019
  • And then that was when the meme of Rob Lowe staying neutral.
    Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 8 June 2024
  • That's kind of the norm, and the latest meme is no exception.
    Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024
  • That can come in many forms, like emojis, gifs, and memes, or just jokes.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 10 Nov. 2023
  • To go so long, and to not be in some kind of meme somewhere losing your cool . .
    Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2019
  • But both sides turned to memes to express their views on the matter.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Blumhouse knows M3gan is the meme that keeps on giving.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Jan. 2023
  • It's been the subject of memes and parodies and tweets.
    Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 30 Nov. 2018
  • One was a meme that made fun of the names that some black women give to their children.
    Steve Harrison, charlotteobserver, 11 May 2017
  • But as the age-old saying goes, for every kind of pain, there's a meme for that.
    Jenny Hollander, Marie Claire, 5 Mar. 2019
  • The colleagues copied the meme that Sellwood and her friends started.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 15 July 2024
  • Meanwhile, for Taye, 27, the memes bring a sense of urgency.
    Sara Youngblood Gregory, refinery29.com, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The meme featured a picture of a dancing baby and a racial slur.
    Andrew Kenney, The Denver Post, 4 June 2019
  • The back-and-forth swings led to plenty of funny memes and gifs online.
    Matt Young, Houston Chronicle, 26 Oct. 2017
  • There are a lot of people putting out memes that hearken back to the era in Germany in 1933.
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 14 July 2023
  • My question is more of a comment, and my comment is more of a meme.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 25 July 2022
  • With the danger passed, the temblor quickly spawned jokes, memes and even merch.
    Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Gill has been leading the meme swarmers through, well, memes.
    Peter Green, Quartz, 18 May 2024
  • Soon, the horse was popping up in internet memes all over the place, being photoshopped into iconic movie scenes and more.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The duo announced the single late on Sunday, sharing Brat-ty memes about their party girl reputations.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2024

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