Example sentences for: wellerisms

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

  • Further on in the Preface one reads that “major collections of wellerisms in some of the European languages are readily available” and the implication that what we have here is representative of the “rich British and American materials.”

  • To compare the collectors of Wellerisms to brick-wall comedians is to overlook a generational, if not historical and unfortunate shift in humor.

  • The Preface describes the book as “the first book-length collection of wellerisms in the English language”; unless reasoning man can find a way to put this information to good and useful purpose, it may well be the last.

  • In my role as Editor, I must be scholarly and democratic, so I shall be happy to publish in a future issue of VERBATIM a rebuttal either from the editors of Wellerisms or from a champion of their cause.

  • A Dictionary of Wellerisms


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