double entendre
Example Sentences
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Hoping to give her blessing and her mother’s wedding ring to her son — “The Family Stone” remains a very clever double entendre — Sybil’s plans are quickly thwarted by this realization.
From Salon • Oct. 15, 2025
“I mean, it has to fit with secular society. It’s got to have some double entendre about the Gospel.”
From Washington Times • Aug. 18, 2023
“All American” — its title a slick double entendre — includes references to dookie braids and James Brown, writing the Black experience into the sort of country song that would ordinarily exclude it.
From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2021
As in “Godot,” there is hardly any plot in “Pass Over”; the title itself is a biblical double entendre.
From Washington Post • Aug. 22, 2021
“You look a little . . . Pardon the double entendre, my friend, but there’s something a little worrisome in your eyes.”
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
