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?)

  • This reminds me of the worst pun I ever heard.

  • In more technological terms, like the computer, as Arnold says, the pun enables a continuous flip-flop (though flip gags often flop).

  • 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.

  • The Post fronts--and the NYT reefers with an above-the-fold picture--Bill Bradley's unusual Madison Square Garden fund-raiser, which netted, pardon the pun, nearly $1.


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