Example sentences for: pun

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

  • There is no downside (this pun was genuinely unintended) to Price Club baby wipes, whose very inferiority make them a better product.

  • One of the most inventive sources for neologisms is the cross-cultural pun: the expression that pretends to be English but is in fact Japanese.

  • 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.

  • He is fully aware, too, of the very ancient tradition of the rebus, the pictorial pun.

  • 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?)


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