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Example sentences for: pun

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There is rather a double standard, first the so-called American Standard that textbooks try to inculcate, the dignified parlance of discourse, and then the related but divergent American Wit, the standard of ingenuity, which trafficks freely in analogy, pun, and portmanteau.
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?)
After all, the pun is, in (typically) more senses than one, first a mock-up and then, if it works, a working model.
] pun in the past tense."
In 1781, it was claimed in the Gentleman's Magazine that A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket, so who dares to deny that puns are so called because they are punishable?