Example sentences for: puns

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

  • Such intertextual references, whether or not pointed by rhyme, puns, and rhythmic matching, must indeed provide depth and enrichment if they are not to become merely a stylistic cliché of the scribbling classes (as they show every sign of doing anyway).

  • In the puns we have been looking at, the writer may revive and extend a metaphor (portraying the teachers as a small embattled force, but making them blue with cold, as well) while at the same time changing the form of the expression.

  • Aquatic mammal puns.

  • It ill behooves me, excoriated recently as enamored of the “cheap larf,” to criticize Safire's arch puns, which permeate—“enliven” is probably the word his editor would use—his articles, but I find some kinds of humor unsuitable for reading, however they might evoke a chuckle when uttered viva voce . A handful of examples, from the book at hand:

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


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