How to Use spoof in a Sentence

spoof

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• Cue parts in the less-than-serious Top Gun and the spy spoof Top Secret!
  — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 7 July 2021
• The crooks know how to spoof delivery sites and restaurants.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2022
• This is also not the first time Kramer has used AI to spoof a politician’s voice.
  — Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
• This is the first segment since last season's Mulaney spoof with The Birds.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 21 Jan. 2022
• The difference is that this one spoofs the whole cycle.
  — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2018
• That may send a very chilling message to those who try to spoof the markets.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• Being spoofed by @MADmagazine was one of the great honors of my acting career.
  — Patrick May, The Mercury News, 5 July 2019
• Some of the earliest victims used Gmail accounts for work, which were easy and free to spoof.
  — Reeves Wiedeman, Vulture, 17 Aug. 2021
• The calls come in from an unknown caller ID (though even cell phone numbers are easy to spoof these days).
  — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
• In one of the funnier moments of the night, Butler helped spoof It’s a Wonderful Life in a pretaped bit.
  — Amanda Wicks, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2022
• All that's required to spoof a signature is to have a public key or key ID.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 14 June 2018
• Police said the scammer had spoofed the number to make the call seem authentic.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 17 Jan. 2020
• The cryptography involved in this process ensures that the proof can’t be spoofed.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 12 May 2023
• Bad actors can still use trick spelling to spoof domain names.
  — Stu Sjouwerman, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• The party also had spoof commercial breaks for the fake 103.5 Dawn FM station.
  — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 7 Jan. 2022
• Kenan last appeared as OJ in 2017, spoofing his first date.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 26 Apr. 2020
• Wiig and Rudolph stuck around and appeared in a sketch that spoofed TV pitches for Christmas albums.
  — William Earl, Variety, 17 Dec. 2023
• When missiles and attack drones are aimed at Russian sites, they are often spoofed or shot down.
  — Eric Schmidt, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2024
• So far, Sprint has not announced any anti-spoofing plans.
  — Doreen Christensen, sun-sentinel.com, 7 June 2019
• As a result, 20% of these spoofing victims have been forced to disconnect their phone.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 14 June 2019
• The big question is: will the Ted Lasso star spoof his own Emmy-winning show and character?
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2021
• To trick people to pick up the phone, crooks also spoof numbers with local area codes to hide their true location.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 8 July 2019
• To this day, one of her favorite parts of the ad campaign has been seeing all the ways people have spoofed it, especially drag queens.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2024
• The more that people know about legitimate providers, how scams will spoof these providers and their role in resisting those scams, the better.
  — Lucia Milică, Forbes, 21 May 2021
• Gutierrez is not the first person to spoof the genre, nor the first to critique the industry for lack of inclusivity.
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
• Some attacks spoof the very infrastructure of the internet itself, in ways that even the most savvy of users has no way to detect.
  — Vint Cerf, Quartz, 6 Sep. 2019
• Attackers can exploit this by sniffing the ID over the air and using it to spoof another user.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2020
• Agents can spoof a GPS signal, creating a forgery that masquerades as the real thing, to trick, say, a ship into thinking it’s in the wrong place.
  — Sarah Scoles, Wired, 17 June 2021
• And because many of the sketches recur from episode to episode, some of them eventually spoof multiple things.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2023
• The practice is common, but can be used to conceal a cargo’s origin, especially when used with spoofing.
  — Christiaan Triebert, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024

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spoof

2 of 2 noun

• What did the cast think of SNL's spoof of the season 2 finale?
  — Morgan Baila, refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2021
• In the years since it was first released in 1984, the spoof has become a cult classic.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• The choice to employ Plaza as the face of the plant-milk spoof was calibrated, of course.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2023
• Agarn in the 1960s spoof of Western frontier TV shows, has died.
  — CBS News, 8 July 2022
• Some of the most comedic moments included a spoof of The Wheel of Fortune.
  — Chioma Nnadi, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2022
• Vintage boy-band spoof in which Kev says the quiet part out loud.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2021
• Despite the speed, a spoof card or passport won’t deceive the system.
  — Rene Hendrikse, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• There also are memes out there and some amusing video spoofs, too.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2023
• The country singer and late-night host debuted their spoof on Tuesday night’s episode of The Tonight Show.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2021
• Agarn in the 1960s spoof of Western frontier TV shows, died Friday.
  — Arkansas Online, 9 July 2022
• But when Max takes pride in rhyming vodka with babka in a Purim play spoof song, the master shoots him down.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
• In 1998, it was adapted to a spoof musical on Broadway.
  — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 1 Feb. 2022
• The project was a spoof on an interview Brown gave CNN just after his 1988 arrest.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2023
• Featuring a score by 1970s music icon Paul Williams, the show is a spoof of mob war movies where the gangsters are all played by kids.
  — cleveland, 12 May 2022
• The spoof account was still up on Wednesday, with nine followers.
  — Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2023
• This is a hilarious spoof of the most recent season of The White Lotus.
  — Andy Hoglund updated January 22, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2023
• Everyone chews the scenery in Mel Brooks’ spoof of the legendary vampire, played by the equally legendary Leslie Nielsen.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 20 Oct. 2021
• The new series from Netflix is a strange and slightly strained woke spoof of wokeness.
  — Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• The spoof calls back to how a young Queen Elizabeth was portrayed in the hit Netflix royal drama, which the new mom of two says shaped her take.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
• But this is no sloppy, bulldozing-through-the-classics spoof.
  — Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
• The space spoof aired its first two seasons on Fox and was renewed on Hulu in 2019 due to a lengthy production schedule.
  — Amber Dowling, Variety, 6 June 2022
• In one, Efron and Alba acted as a feuding couple in an action-movie spoof.
  — Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 18 Aug. 2021
• But Yoon’s novel is no spoof; the survivor’s panic is too palpable for that.
  — Ilana Masad, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2022
• Stephen Colbert nailed that pop culture triple Lindy with a pitch-perfect Taylor Swift spoof.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2022
• Here a narrative in tweets, there in emails, here a satire of literary tropes, there a spoof of Hollywood.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2022
• The 2000 film was a spoof of multiple Halloween horror flicks wrapped into one.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2023
• Heidi Gardner is John, the security guard playing quarters with him, in a spoof on one of the show's best scenes.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 16 May 2021
• Hilarious spy movie spoof might be the best work of Myers’ career.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 1 May 2023
• In a spoof ad, Gillis pitched the betting platform Rock Bottom Kings, which instead of sports, allows users to bet on how low their friends’ lives could sink.
  — Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Feb. 2024
• Neil Young has appeared alongside a Fallon spoof of himself.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024