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

Entrants would write the final line of a limerick to enter into the draw to win a brand new car.

From Salon

We also wanted to show Nick and Philby getting drunk together, reciting silly limericks and singing daft songs.

From Los Angeles Times

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

“Da”- limericks: The dachshund, each hair and each wart of it, Serves for the wags to make sport of it.

From Washington Post