Example sentences for: punning

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

  • One of the features of this style was the alliterating, punning phrase, often used as a headline--wasted wowsers vied with watery wowsers and indeed with weird and worried wowsers, and the exercise was often carried to extremes--witness collocations like pious, Puritanical, pragmatical, pulpit-pounding self-pursuers whom we call wowsers, or bald-headed, bad-breathed, bible-banging bummer, who ought to be banged with a bowser.

  • Nevertheless the show's punning title, "Wordrobe," appears on the wall with the displaced "a" in flashing red neon above the first "o."

  • Your first supposition was right: Prudie was punning.

  • The punning by Anthony Quinn is a different matter.

  • The comment about street names reminded me of a punning name in Ohio for which credit must probably go to the Ford Motor Company.


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