limerick
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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
Angry Dan, from Walthamstow, east London, is known for his vibrant colours and memorable rhymes - writing an original limerick which he paints on each mural.
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
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This Poe is a rum sort, pallid and pie-eyed and with a fondness for limericks.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2022
This year we did limericks that feature words and names beginning “he-.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2021
See OEDILF.com about submitting limericks there, if you like, after this contest is over.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2020
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
He must’ve been really upset with me to send me limericks instead of haiku.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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