Sentence examples for a mockery about from inspiring English sources

"It's a mockery about being a man, really," he says.

Basel are watched by crowds whose fervour makes a mockery of cliches about the nation's reserve.

P.W. Singer, an expert in contracting at the Brookings Institution, said that the types of jobs that have been outsourced in recent years make a mockery of regulations about "inherently governmental" functions.

"It's actually really a mockery when you think about it -- living in a skyscraper.

And what you just read was a mockery of a discourse about Islam that has become all too normal in the American public sphere.

The defiance of its players and fans is what sport is all about, and a mockery of finance.

The knee-jerk cancellation of political activity every Sept. 11 makes a mockery of the chest-thumping about how the terrorists didn't win.

Only, unlike Beadle's About or Trigger Happy TV, the Impractical Jokers aren't about making a mockery of their prankees.

O'Connor says the rebuff makes a mockery of Turnbull's comment about ending "division for division's sake" in federal politics.

The fact that lawmakers are not willing to ask the nation's wealthiest to pay their fair share of taxes also makes a mockery of all their talk about deficit reduction.

Moreover, for Washington to work so hard to avoid applying the law in order to support a coup which is excluding a large segment of the population -- whose candidate won the first free presidential election in Egyptian history -- will make a mockery of any future pronouncements about America's commitment to democracy.