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Example sentences for: spoonerisms

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

In my own family Spoonerisms flourished luxuriantly for many years, and we hardly spoke of the weather, for instance, without invoking their oblique charm: It's rotting with Spain, or perhaps more frequently (it was in the English Midlands, which as Hilaire Belloc said are sodden and unkind): It's roaring with pain.
Spoonerisms can be classified on a functional basis as either useless or useful.
I am not suggesting that all the fun should be taken out of Spoonerisms; but, when transposed sounds reveal profound universal anxieties, then perhaps we should go beyond merely enjoying a good laugh.
The best spoonerisms produce an element of humor or irony, as this one does.
In my head and on my tongue, spoonerisms spring forth.