Example sentences for: jabberwocky

How can you use “jabberwocky” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Jabberwocky itself is given in The Concise Oxford Dictionary as designating nonsensical writing or speech, esp. for comic effect.

  • At least since Lewis Carroll intrigued his readers with Jabberwocky, there have been writers—Robert Heinlein and Dr. Seuss, to name two—who deliberately minted new words.

  • Others of you, of course, know about these splendid beasts, and their activities, in the poem Jabberwocky, which is found in Lewis Carroll's Alice through the Looking-Glass.


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