punned in a sentence
Examples
- It was punned by the title of the 1942 Warner Brothers cartoon " Fin'n Catty ", directed by Chuck Jones.
- In cases where the borrowed word already ends with a, this may be punned to a, as in, from, and, from.
- Memorable campaigns have touched people's lives for generations, skillfully-punned brandnames and turn-of-phrase slogans have outlived even their creators.
- One frequent contributor topic is punned variations on current headlines or movie titles; the best ( or worst ) are rewarded with the admonition " Stop it.
- She perhaps punned by accident, when, in describing how a teacher ordered her to lip-sync during the performance, she referred to the musical duo Milli Vanilli.
- For example, in Chinese, a pun may be based on a similarity in shape of the written character, despite a complete lack of phonetic similarity in the words punned upon.
- The term punned on the Taoist custom of " cleansing / washing the heart / mind " ( " x? x + n " ) before conducting certain ceremonies or entering certain holy places.
- When the Aids epidemic began,'gaijin'was punned on to create the neologism'( I modify for clarity to outsiders )'Aidsjin', implying Aids was something'foreigners had '.
- Holub's books include " Although " and " Notes From a Clay Pigeon, " a book that punned on the poet's name ( Holub means pigeon in Czech ).
- The term punned on the Taoist custom of " cleansing / washing the heart " ( m?_, " x? x + n " ) prior to conducting certain ceremonies or entering certain holy places.