Example sentences for: spoonerisms

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

  • Making up spoonerisms is a pleasant form of addiction.

  • Since sound and mental image are the keys to good spoonerisms, auditory types are most acceptable.

  • Spoonerisms can be classified on a functional basis as either useless or useful.

  • 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.

  • Strictly visual spoonerisms must be rejected.


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