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

"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

Madeline: "Good limerick" is a contradiction in terms.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon