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

Regifted from the Loser Crap Collection of Dave Zarrow, who won it for a limerick he wrote in 2004.

From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2022

Maybe she will try writing again, nothing too ambitious, a fun poem in the limerick mode.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez