Words similar to pun

Example sentences for: pun

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

He is a very good writer, too, though I sometimes find his arch approach unnecessary and a bit annoying: he seems in a perpetual pursuit of the pun, an affliction not entirely unknown in these hallowed halls.
Using a pun on Red Herring 's name, Perkins' note appeared to imply that a Bush donation would enhance readers' relationship to the publication.
In tandem is often used to mean simultaneously or even side-by-side, but a tandem hitch is actually one or two horses ranged one in front of the other, in a single line, with tandem originally going back to a Latin pun.
' For most Americans, unmentionables probably does not cover (pun intended) the body parts beneath those undergarments and certainly does not include “curses and biological functions.”
striptiz uotur striptease water, a curious reference to maladroit, foolish individuals; kretenozavur cretinosaurus; boiler one whose head is full of bubbling hot water; sifon siphon, one whose head is like an empty tube; bushón fuse, from French bouchon cork; diaria diarrhea; loko from Spanish loco; galosh as in galoshes; kashón crate, from Italian cassone; lainer ocean liner, a pun on the Bulgarian word lainó scum.