Sentence examples for Mock from inspiring English sources
The word 'mock' is correct and can be used in written English
It can be used as a verb or an adjective. As a verb, 'mock' means to ridicule or make fun of someone or something. Example: The students mocked their teacher's accent, making her feel self-conscious. As an adjective, 'mock' means not authentic or real, often used in the context of imitating or copying something. Example: The designer created a mock version of the dress before starting the actual production process. In both cases, 'mock' can be used in formal or informal writing, as long as it is appropriate and adds meaning to the sentence.
verb
To mimic, to simulate.
It is easy to mock the idea of Cameron standing up for the toiling masses while the pockets of his Old Etonian tailcoat bulge with hedge-funded millions.
Glenn Greenwald, for example, attacked PEN's decision, citing "the fraud of pretending that celebrations of Charlie Hebdo cartoonists are independent of the fact that the particular group they most prominently mock are Muslims, a marginalised, targeted, and largely powerless group in France".
Most of the summer break between year 5 and 6 for the children I teach is spent doing mock exams and revision.
The duo's meticulous year-round tracking of ward byelections is easy to mock, but it is the only way in which the polls that so obsess Westminster can be checked against real votes.
She and her mother get on amazingly well, often holding mock wrestling matches.
She went on: "When you end up in the psych ward or rehab I'll be happy to visit you … and would not lower myself to mock you.
My heart leaps indecently when I glimpse a rockery in a front garden, a burst of cherry blossom, a mock-Tudor semidetached frontage, or any suggestion of individual fantasy.
At its most extreme the ban's absurdity was exposed on the BBC comedy mock-news show The Day Today when Steve Coogan, playing a Sinn Féin spokesman, sucked in helium before an interview in order "to subtract credibility from his statements".
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The buildings often come complete with mock-marble effects, in an attempt to overcome the fact that the stone was too cumbersome to lug over the Andes in the 18th century.
