Mocking Sentence Examples

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  • He studied her face with mocking eyes, and his mouth twisted into a humorless smile.

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  • Carmen met his mocking gaze.

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  • It was as if he was mocking her.

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  • Sasha bowed his head in a mocking show of respect.

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  • The words were mocking rather than encouraging.

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  • Carmen met a playful mocking gaze that reminded her of Alex.

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  • Then added, in a mocking voice, 'We were intimate, and all our old love came flowing back!'

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  • Her whole body deflated at his mocking tone.

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  • Unless these ideals are mocking visions, man has a right to expect the continuance of his life for its completion.

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  • I crossed my fingers, hoping my mocking his speech would remain undetected.

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  • Even his voice held a mocking note.

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  • Was he mocking her, or did he think she was naive enough to believe his outrageous flattery?

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  • Dolokhov looked round but did not say anything, nor did the mocking smile on his lips change.

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  • His mocking tone infuriated her.

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  • Michael, Brian is 13 so maybe a bit of Xmas cheer would've been more appropriate, rather than a mocking reply.

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  • Tho while previous entrants had been treated with mocking condescension, Lakeman was treated as a serious contender.

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  • To wish to forget does more dishonor to the dead than mocking the event.

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  • Darkyn's words were mocking.

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  • And he looked at Pierre with a mocking, challenging expression.

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  • So what happens when his wife hears mocking laughter from the upstairs bedroom while she's alone in the house?

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  • No mocking, arguing, complaining or blaming others.

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  • The voice was mocking.

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  • He gazed down at her, a wry smile on his lips - his eyes mocking her.

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  • The mocking note in past-Death's voice irked Deidre.

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  • Just like Dr. Evil and other baddies, he gets yes men around him who will laugh at his mocking.

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  • If you've found a video that seems to have people up in arms either defending the video or mocking it, you've likely got a good one on your hands.

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  • Maybe that was why his response lacked the usual mocking humor.

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  • Those eyes would be mocking her, or maybe filled with fear.

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  • Odin's brethren (in Gylfi's Mocking) are Vile and Ve, who with him slew Ymir the giant, and made all things out of the fragments of his body.

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  • No Immortal alive had a good opinion of the deity, and the mocking way she spoke about Gabriel infuriated Deidre.

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  • There was a craziness in her head, like mocking laughter that echoed her own.

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  • They just pulled back almost mocking me and then drove off... they thought it was highly amusing.

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  • Each of us have heard the skeptics mocking challenge, " Can God make a rock He cannot lift?

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  • He stopped and looked at her, thrusting his hand in his pockets and making a mocking smile curl his lips.

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  • Ah, here they are--the mixed metaphors mocking and strutting about before me, pointing to the bull in the china shop assailed by hailstones and the bugbears with pale looks, an unanalyzed species!

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  • Each of us have heard the skeptics mocking challenge, Can God make a rock He cannot lift?

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  • Many celebs have faced scrutiny and downright mocking when they've gained a few pounds.

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  • It is sometimes worn by the youth and adult Indie crowd in a mocking sense, as this group hopes to degrade the elitism of the sweater vest.

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  • Llewelyn's head was brought to Edward at Conway Castle, who ordered it to be exhibited in the capital, surrounded by a wreath of ivy, in mocking allusion to an ancient Cymric prophecy concerning a Welsh prince being crowned in London.

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  • He was wont to mention the following as the two incidents in his life which had afforded him the greatest pleasure, - that a stranger, whom he had met as a travelling companion in his youth, made to his declaration "I am Daniel Bernoulli" the incredulous and mocking reply, "And I am Isaac Newton"; and that, while entertaining Kdnig and other guests, he solved without rising from table a problem which that mathematician had submitted as difficult and lengthy.

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  • Perhaps the mocking bird is singing them to sleep.

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  • For people who oppose polygamy, however, the act of starring in a reality TV show is likened to mocking the law that outlaws this lifestyle.

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  • His laugh was low, and she could imagine his mocking expression.

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  • He smiled knowingly, his eyes mocking her.

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  • He glanced back, his eyes mocking her.

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  • He chuckled and she glanced up into his mocking gaze.

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  • She stared up into mocking eyes that were twinkling with humor.

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  • He shook his head, his dark eyes mocking hers.

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  • Of Christianity he always spoke in the mocking tone of the "enlightened" philosophers, regarding it as the invention of priests; but it is noteworthy that after the Seven Years' War, the trials of which steadied his character, he sought to strengthen the church for the sake of its elevating moral influence.

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  • The art of poetry stood to the Icelanders in lieu of music; scarcely any prominent man but knew how to turn a mocking or laudatory stanza, and down to the fall of the commonwealth the accomplishment was in high request.

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  • Song birds are numerous and of many varieties; among them are thrushes, mocking birds, blue birds, robins, wrens, chickadees, warblers, vireos, sparrows, bobolinks (reed birds or rice birds), meadow larks and orioles.

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  • The mocking bird does not live in the cold north.

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  • The same inquisitive, challenging, and rather mocking eyes still looked at him.

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  • Some have seen it as a mocking gesture, but Joe Strummer was very conscious of rock history, and probably intended it as a compliment.

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  • Yankovic's string of parody hits, such as Eat It, Fat and I Love Rocky Road rivaled the success of the mainstream pop artists he was imitating, and his songs fought for chart position alongside the people he was mocking.

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  • The most successful parodist in music history, Weird Al has successfully lampooned nearly every genre of music and often shared chart space with the very artists he was mocking.

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  • Critical reaction was mixed at the time, with some reviewers mocking their goth direction, but the album has since earned greater respect.

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  • It is the home of the southern fox-squirrel, Cotton rat, ricefield rat, wood rat, free-tailed bat, mocking bird, painted bunting, prothonotary warbler, red-cockaded woodpecker, chuckwills-widow, and the swallow-tailed and Mississippi kites.

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