Example sentences for: pun

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

  • The newly svelte lady surely had in mind an about-face, not a pirouette, and was lithely (as she might say) unaware that her expanded metaphor had canceled the sense of her loss (a moroxish pun?)

  • He is also known as a kaskét cap, as in the French casquette , a modern pun on kalpák fur cap, an offensive taunt to out-of-towners that is of Turkish origin.

  • But he is not beyond a grumbling pun on oxen and morons , while looking hard at me.

  • Also in this group, I would say, are Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1846), not “Weathering,” “Withering,” or any similar fancy, and, admittedly more trickily, Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow (1921), not `Chrome,” although of course the pun on this word is intentional.

  • It ineluctably reminds me of the favorite execrable pun perpetrated by those who seem to be in the throes of learning English: “Let's throw a little light on the subject,” said the man as he turned on the lamp.


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