limerick
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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
Week 1502 was our annual Limerixicon, a salute to the never-ending limerick dictionary project at OEDILF.com.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 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
For those for whom limericks are too long-form, the Empress brings you the third installment of our Loserly version of haiku:
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2021
Week 1448 was our 18th annual Limerixicon, in which we provide some material for OEDILF.com, the slowly forming dictionary in which the entry for each word is one or more limericks.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2021
She liked writing jokes and limericks; then, when she was 14, her mother bought a piano “as a piece of furniture,” Armatrading recalled.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2021
Mr. Bell — in normal times — would accompany his twin 10-year-olds, Samuel and Benjamin, to a special music school near Lincoln Center, connecting with them by playing trivia games and coming up with limericks.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2020
"Well Matilda, I would very much like to hear one of these limericks you say you have written. Could you try to remember one for us?"
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
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