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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.
This paragraph by Allan Simmons is an alphabetic pun:
After all, the pun is, in (typically) more senses than one, first a mock-up and then, if it works, a working model.
Indeed, the scholarly journals have been overflowing with turgid prose for decades, and it is particularly refreshing to know that comment on virtually any aspect of language can still be offered in language that, glowing with respectability, cleaving to the well-turned phrase, punctuated by the provocative pun, can be so engagingly presented.
He admits the pleasure of a good pun--not a false or missed pun, or a too obvious, witless pun, but one that activates a mental Leyden jar.