limerick

Example Sentences

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Email your limerick and name to [email protected] by noon Monday, and if we get enough fun ones, we’ll publish a selection to carry us into spring.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 15, 2024

Kraft-Walker also ran limerick competitions to advertise Vegemite.

From Salon • Jul. 10, 2023

If you’re bored of reading this newsletter, you could ask ChatGPT or Bing to summarize the rest of it for you, or to rewrite it as a jaunty limerick.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 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

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