Example sentences for: puns

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

  • Search for condescension, sentimentality, irony (with separate options for intentional and unintentional), pandering, obscurantism, and puns;

  • Mike Tyson was disqualified during his latest championship boxing match for biting off part of Evander Holyfield's ear . The bite inspired a blizzard of bad puns and rekindled the ancient debate over whether boxing is inherently or only sporadically barbaric.

  • The screen is packed with puns for the eye and teasers for the brain.

  • Swift said that like fleas, puns get everywhere.

  • Not only are the puns atrocious (which is not a legitimate complaint, I suppose), but they are often obscure, many having been dredged up from collections that include 18th- and 19th-century examples:


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