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:

The name of gallium is not only a pun on the name of its discoverer, Lecoq de Boisbaudran, but a patriotic tribute to his native country—Latin Gallia , Gaul, France.
' 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.”
an offence, a poem, or a pun).”
The music of the early 1960s in the Liverpool area was often referred to as beat music, and so, modeling themselves after Holly's band, the Crickets, John, who couldn't resist a pun, suggested Beatles as a play on beat music.
Now if you meant that to be a pun, then I have no problem with it, but if, instead, you meant that you failed, the better word might have been "foundered," meaning that you a) failed completely or b) went directly to the bottom.