Words similar to pun

Example sentences for: pun

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

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.
National commemoratives include Americium, Germanium, Polonium and Francium; ancient France likewise gets a nod in Gallium (Ga), the only metal that melts in your hand, not in your chamber (unless you have a very warm room)—named both for Gaul (Latin Gallia, that place which, thanks to Julius Caesar's memoir of its subjugation by the Romans, every schoolchild used to know was divided into three parts) and, in a gesture of unusual levity, as a pun on the name of its discoverer, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran.
Using a pun on Red Herring 's name, Perkins' note appeared to imply that a Bush donation would enhance readers' relationship to the publication.
These are based, just like the traditional pun, on homophony:
But the largest group of gay taunts can be classified as the ped- group, all words inspired by pederasty: pederaj, pederash, pederishka, pederin, pederko, pedal, pedalo, petsa, pechurka, pepos, pedos, pepi, pedikir (a pun on pedicure ), peder, and its facetiously French-sounding inversions derpé and depré.