limerick

Example Sentences

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Email your limerick and name to [email protected] by noon Monday, and if we get enough fun ones, we’ll publish a selection to carry us into spring.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 15, 2024

Kraft-Walker also ran limerick competitions to advertise Vegemite.

From Salon • Jul. 10, 2023

For today’s homework, try to mix and match a format, a style and a topic — like, “Write a limerick in the style of Snoop Dogg about global warming.”

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2023

She donned a green dress, read a self-written limerick to U2 and invited the quartet onstage for an intimate toast of black velvets — Guinness mixed with champagne.

From Washington Post • Dec. 4, 2022

“I thought I was going daft. I thought I might end up wearing a teacup on my head and spouting limerick poems.”

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el