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:
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: