homonyms

Example Sentences

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Here are some common homonyms and their meanings:

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

A young man biked around the court wearing a pig mask and military hat, referencing homonyms for the accused TV host’s name.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2020

The homonyms apparently provide for a cheeky play on words for students at the University of Memphis, a state school in the same southern city.

From Salon • Oct. 2, 2020

His music, even since Pavement melted into entropy in 1999, has been jarring and opaque, defined by lyrics that circle around homonyms and puns, or break from generational observations into non sequiturs.

From New York Times • May 14, 2018

I could copy owls and bats, the words for “bat” and “blessing” homonyms.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston