Example sentences for: wordspinner

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  • In Wordspinner , some of the quizzes are mere vocabulary tests, though couched in light-hearted utterances; for example, at Graffiti II the reader is asked to define the underscored words in sentences like “Clark Kent was a transvestite” and “Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry,” though one could think of a lot of regrettable actions for which vasectomy would be a feeble excuse.

  • Wordspinner

  • And while much of the material might seem simple to sophisticated readers of VERBATIM, its editor learned from Wordspinner that a marriage between a brother and the childless widow of the groom's brother is called a leviratic marriage and that cut the green calabash is Gullah for `exaggerate.


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