Example sentences for: spooner

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

  • Each time I visit Oxford, I walk past the Bodleian Library, pass under the Bridge of Sighs, and turn down the narrow lane that leads to Oxford University's New College, treading the same path as the late venerable Reverend Doctor William Archibald Spooner.

  • Eyewitnesses claim, however, that the concept began with Spooner's twice-spoken chapel announcement: “The next hymn will be `Kinkering Kongs Their Titles Take.

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

  • Dr. Spooner's proverbial half-warmed fish for half-formed wish has a totally different sound and meaning if written as “half-wormed fish,” requiring the spelling to be changed.

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


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