Example sentences for: wellerisms

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

  • 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

  • There are many things about modern life--air conditioning (in particular), electricity, indoor plumbing, supermarkets--that make me grateful to be living in the latter half of the 20th century and not back in the antediluvian or “good old” days so often pined for, and one of them is the knowledge (gained from the Introduction) that American newspapers and magazines published numerous short lists of wellerisms during the 19th century.

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

  • Proverbs can be interesting because they are a key to human wisdom and folly; wellerisms seem to have no redeeming qualities.


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