limerick

Example Sentences

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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

By “significantly,” we mean that “him” or “his” won’t count as the word unless your limerick focused on that word — if it were about gender, or using pronouns, for example.

From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2022

He asked the student to read a limerick about a monster-like machine that “munches up socks by the pair.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2021

“I thought I was going daft. I thought I might end up wearing a teacup on my head and spouting limerick poems.”

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el