Example sentences for: spooner

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

  • In the six decades since Dr. Spooner's death, the phenomenon of transposed sounds has found a firm place both in spoken and written language.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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