jabberwocky

Example Sentences

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What were these jabberwocky words arranged in this order doing here?

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2022

Her intolerance for political jabberwocky and inflated ego was equaled by her seemingly boundless personal generosity, which often led her to help strangers in need.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2021

Me: “Was brelig in the slithy toads did gire and bible in the raids and the mobe beware the jabberwocky my son the boys that catch the fenrous bender snatch long time the maxim foam.”

From BusinessWeek • Aug. 9, 2012

Before he joined the Army Air Forces in 1943, his nightly jabberwocky, sometimes savage, sometimes sophomoric, had drawn millions of New York fans, including Fred Allen and Norman Corwin.

From Time Magazine Archive

Through puns and transpositions of literal and metaphorical imagery, Carroll transformed English into a kind of hallucinatory jabberwocky.

From Time Magazine Archive