limerick

Example Sentences

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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

In Week 1441 we asked you to recast or comment on the lyrics to a well-known song as a limerick.

From Washington Post

Ms Wilcockson found the pages, which contain a limerick about an old man on a bicycle, a poem and several letters, in a large collection of manuscripts known as the Charnwood Autograph Collection.

From BBC

I’m no poet, but I like to think that pantry cooking is a bit like composing a sonnet or a limerick — the restrictions of form yielding great things in the kitchen.

From New York Times

Like any parent in church, I look around to make sure the kids all have clothes on and aren’t scribbling dirty limericks in the hymnals.

From Los Angeles Times