Example sentences for: pun

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

  • to execute or commit (esp. an offence, a poem, or a pun)

  • In short (excuse the pun), for one reason or another users in the UK would be better served by a better dictionary of abbreviations than this; US users should be alerted to the fact that the text is British, unedited for American spelling: for `decagramme, decalitre, decametre' read `decagram, decaliter, decameter.

  • The name of gallium is not only a pun on the name of its discoverer, Lecoq de Boisbaudran, but a patriotic tribute to his native country—Latin Gallia , Gaul, France.

  • This paragraph by Allan Simmons is an alphabetic pun:

  • I have challenged him with Pope's line of the pun as the lowest form of wit, but he says not if they are appropriate.


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