limerick

Example Sentences

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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

"And it's a limerick poem - a five-line poem - which I've written on a pen pot with three crayons in to represent the pastel that Lowry used."

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2022

By “significantly,” we mean that “him” or “his” won’t count as the word unless your limerick focused on that word — if it were about gender, or using pronouns, for example.

From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2022

"A witty limerick is very hard to write," she added.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl