Words similar to puns

Example sentences for: puns

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

One is available in the book 7 Kinds of Smart: Identifying and Developing Your Many Intelligences , by Thomas Armstrong, which offers choices such as, "I enjoy entertaining myself or others with tongue twisters, nonsense rhymes, or puns" and "I find it difficult to sit still for long periods of time."
Search for condescension, sentimentality, irony (with separate options for intentional and unintentional), pandering, obscurantism, and puns;
Inventive puns and coded metaphors abound, and new words, phrases, and grammatical twists surface each year.
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:
Safire cannot be accused of being copy-proud (except, evidently, of awful puns, as in “ Ms. is deliberately msterious , but at least it is not deliberately msleading ” and other mscegenations).