pun

Example Sentences

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“It’s clear the administration wants a whitewashed story, if you’ll pardon the pun there. And that’s wrong.”

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026

This year’s rendition is filled with murderous red-eyed ravens up to no good, and in true Haunted Mansion fashion it has a pun for a name.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025

As a viewer begins to realize, these blind alleys, pun intended, are going to lead nowhere.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

The morning newspapers saluted him with "Zendabad" - a pun on zindabad, the Urdu word for long live.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025

“I just can’t believe his first note to us in a year is on a pun postcard.”

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson