Example sentences for: spoonerisms

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

  • Sound, spelling, meaning, and humor all combine to make great spoonerisms.

  • Meaningless spoonerisms may be amusing in sound, but do not create real words.

  • 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.

  • In my head and on my tongue, spoonerisms spring forth.

  • Analysis of these groups enables one to determine what might be called “good” as opposed to “bad” spoonerisms.


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