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    punning example sentences

    punning


    1. In fact, I became so obsessed that whenever I appeared for Classics studies, the other boys would chant, 'Here he comes - The Idiot and the Oddity', punning Homer's title


    2. ” The speaker said merrily punning on the reason they had gathered


    3. mejoría: Castilla early shows his scorn for the empty-headedsycophant Mendaña by thus punning on the word mejoría


    4. form of wit---well, Jonathan's Whiffed: "Punning is a talent which


    5. „With his foot, you fool,' Ken said jokingly and I wondered if he was into punning? Should


    6. „Yea, I guess you could say that,' he replied, leaving the punning scenario up in the air


    7. He replied: They are like the punning riddles which are asked at feasts or the children's puzzle about the eunuch aiming at the bat, with what he hit him, as they say in the puzzle, and upon what the bat was sitting


    8. How could there be any commonness in a man so well-bred, so ambitious of social distinction, so generous and unusual in his views of social duty? As easily as there may be stupidity in a man of genius if you take him unawares on the wrong subject, or as many a man who has the best will to advance the social millennium might be ill-inspired in imagining its lighter pleasures; unable to go beyond Offenbach's music, or the brilliant punning in the last burlesque


    9. Canning in the mysterious art of punning, I think can be very little way behind his prototype in the art of equivoques


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    Synonyms for "punning"

    paronomasia pun punning wordplay

    "punning" definitions

    a humorous play on words