Example sentences for: wordplay

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

  • The vocabulary is suffisant in its wordplay ( AIDS , A* Infected Disk Syndrome, sex , Software EXchange) as in the nonchalance of its central and mixed metaphor: surfing the web , borrowed from scanning television channels for a watchable program.

  • Another, nationally aired series of advertisements relied on some wordplay achieved by wrongly stressing the first word of the name of a breakfast food whose pseudo-colloquial garble I will not dignify by quoting.

  • I don't subscribe to the standard critique of the Coens--that they are too cool and too clever by half, that they care more for wordplay than for flesh-and-blood characters.

  • In a similar Shakespearean wordplay, the Sydney Morning Herald of Australia captioned a picture of Paltrow "Gwyneth winneth."

  • Conundrums contain wordplay and in Chicano culture are sometimes bilingual, playing with words in both the Spanish and the English language.


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