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;

  • These are based on puns like camp as a row of tents, and on rhymes--plates of meat etc.

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • "Don't be a BoneHead," puns the chyron at the end of the spot, humorously encouraging its target market to reach for a condom.


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