Example sentences for: puns

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

  • Aquatic mammal puns.

  • 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.

  • 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:

  • 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."

  • 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.


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