pun
Example Sentences
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After she responds by asking, in a flat, noncombative tone, “Do your children not understand what a pun is?,”
From Slate • May 4, 2026
“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
As a viewer begins to realize, these blind alleys, pun intended, are going to lead nowhere.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025
And that is how a quack who treats the tender corns on pedicured toes suddenly becomes a world-renowned corn doctor in a show that seemingly never met a pun it didn’t like.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025
"I give people credit for buying into consumerism!" he says excitedly, having found his pun.
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
Vocabulary lists containing pun
Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Middle School
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 4
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