Example sentences for: spooner

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

  • Although Freud, so far as I know, did not discuss Spoonerisms on his classic analysis of slips-of-the-tongue, his theories as to the psychoanalytic implications of transposed sounds, such as those attributed to Rev. Spooner, could have been usefully added to Learn To Spike Lunars [ XVIII , 4] by Robert Archibald Ford.

  • However, Freud, I am sure, would have stressed how the slip reveals anxieties that all lecturers, including Rev. Spooner, harbor about addressing an audience.

  • The good Dr. Spooner, a kind man with white hair and cherubic face, served New College for a half century as distinguished scholar and able administrator.

  • A colleague recalled a discussion in which Dr. Spooner referred several times to “Dr.

  • Robert Archibald Ford's article, “Learn to Spike Lunars” [XVIII, 4], on the late Dr. Spooner of New College, Oxford, reminded me of two, doubtless apocryphal spoonerisms attributed to him.


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