How To Use Punning In A Sentence
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And, no, punning on the word 'balls' doesn't count.
Times, Sunday Times
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The punning allusion to the Cubism of Picasso's eyes is exact.
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No art, nothing but some sadly punning slogans and the most uninspired, turgid and solipsistically verbose writing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Michelle Kearney, the magazine's editor, likes to stand in front of large photos of slashing scalpels while punning: ‘We are totally cutting edge’.
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As an aphorist, Cullen is hard to beat and his supple and punning use of text puts the lie to the whole unthinking bad boy concept.
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His banal and punning conclusion is that 'food is certain to be a vital ingredient of humanity's future'.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ferguson the "linguistic tour de force" of the anagrams is a relational punning that underscores "the symbiosis of things and mind .... the inevitability of any human's seeing things in terms of relationship
Notes on 'Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound'
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The garden shredder also aids in shredding debris from punning your hedges.
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Beverages include 1/4Rye beer—punningly pronounced "quarter-rye"—a homemade brew consisting of 25% malt rye.
Reading Between the Lines, This Is a Big Date for Corduroy Fans
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Cruelly punning, he calls his baroness ‘Barrenness’.
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This is the season for beer events, but for serious beer drinkers, I'd be inclined to pay attention to Pizzeria Paradiso's punningly named OktoBEERfest.
Lift a glass for Oktoberfest
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The lyrics gloried in sometimes using the original phrases in a hilariously new context, or mischievously punning on them.
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Any theatre which presents a drama about poker lays itself open to critics punning madly about it ‘taking a gamble’ or ‘playing for high stakes’.
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Or, more punningly, failed to rise to the occasion.
Archive 2008-02-01
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Exploration of linguistic cross-references yields some stylistic delights, such as the felicitously punning chapter title ‘Trojan Whores.’
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German media condemned the boots - as well as seeing them as an unmissable punning opportunity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Actually it's punningly called Steps To The Stars because the show is presented to two members of teen sensation, Steps.
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Punning on the political spoilsman, he produced three volumes of war correspondence from the viewpoint of a tipsy literary bohemian among the common soldiers.
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The word ` slide 'is of a punning nature, and in conjunction with the easy moveability of the microscope-barrel suggests a meaning akin to that of dreams of skating and sliding, which are usually sexual.
The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
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Part boardroom thriller, part domestic drama, the novel, as its punning title suggests, is a tale of fantastic credulity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gomorrah takes its punning title-the Neapolitan crime syndicate is called the Camorra-from Roberto Saviano's 2006 bestseller, an impressive feat of first-person journalism by a 26-year-old writer, now under police protection.
NashvilleScene.com
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Orally and in print the two words were 'sometimes indistinguishable', making them ripe for punning.
The Times Literary Supplement
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And Gertrude retaliates in kind when she punningly and pithily retorts: ‘We shall as soon get a fart from a dead man as a farthing of courtesy here.’
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The punning names cued by this concept — such as hippotatoes and tacodiles — epitomise the film's joyful silliness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Built by Federico II Gonzaga to entertain his lover - hence the punning name: ‘Tea Palace’ and/or ‘You Palace’.
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Dreamworks' hands-off approach is evident in the finished film, which is defiantly British in its quirky choice of subject matter and love of absurd punning.
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Robert Grace , a young gentleman offortune, generous, lively a lover of punning of his friends.
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This is pictorial phonetism; and pictorial phonetism is, in fact, pictorial punning, of the sort commonly known as the rebus, or charade.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning
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In his great novel Ulysses, James Joyce, punning on the old line ‘An Englishman's home is his castle’ reflects that ‘The Irishman's house is his coffin’.
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Maley takes us through punning, naming, etymological wordplay, versification and other features of the poetic language.
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Her punning original-language title is untranslatable, of course.
Times, Sunday Times
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You might consider an approach pioneered by the computer scientist Donald Knuth and punningly dubbed "The Way of the Cross-Section" by, er, I forget whom: namely, taking a stratified sample.
The Whole Bible?
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There are so many rhyming couplets, which lends itself to rap, and so much punning and wordplay, which are the same tools that hip-hop uses.
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The laws of sexual selection in the Great British Tabloid mean that you must pun, because punning is what the readers expect.
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This is pictorial phonetism; and pictorial phonetism is, in fact, pictorial punning, of the sort commonly known as the rebus, or charade.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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The constant punning and allusions through sampling naturally makes them literate in the most unpretentious manner I have heard and seen out of a group so avant-garde.
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The Romans ask punningly which is the uppermost, the Pope or Antonelli?
The Roman Question
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To Frances Ferguson the "linguistic tour de force" of the anagrams is a relational punning that underscores "the symbiosis of things and mind .... the inevitability of any human's seeing things in terms of relationship" (206-7). close window volume index | essay | notes
Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound
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Robert Grace , a young gentleman offortune, generous, lively a lover of punning of his friends.
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Besides a punningly perfect title, Jordan's Central Crime Zone will keep you plugged into the world of crime writing -- even when I get distracted by other genres.
Crime Writing Digest
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Punning on the meaning of grande as tall or as grand in the social sense, the seventeenth-century commentator noted the reference to the courtesans and prostitutes of Venice.
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In turn, the double sirloin joined by the lumbar spine became punningly known as a baron of beef.
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First, it isn't Hobbes's view that the relation between states is characterised as involving a ‘clubbable’ social life, unless we're punning on ‘club’.
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She hit the headlines last month when an advertisement punning on a nursery rhyme was banned for being likely to harm children.
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After a friend, punning on Kline's first name and "shir," which means song in Hebrew, called her ShirLaLa, "the name kind of stuck.
The Jewish Week (BETA)
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To put it less punningly, Groovy's template framework is a slick alternative for plain-Jane Java coding when you need to quickly knock out simple applications that require a view aspect.
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Who else would write, let alone attempt to sing, a line such as ‘I hate verisimilitude’, or punningly entitle a song ‘Neil Jung’?
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An awl is an iron instrument used for piercing leather, but the word has been in punning use since time immemorial.
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In his punningly titled follow-up, a retiree confronts his wife's affair, his daughter's inappropriate man -- and a scary lesion on his hip.
Word Perfect: Books
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No art, nothing but some sadly punning slogans and the most uninspired, turgid and solipsistically verbose writing.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a densely allusive, punning, always associative flow that manages to keep its narrative movement alive with dizzying glances in all directions along the way.
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We are all, it concluded punningly, made from the dust of an exploding distant star.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tom Hollander doubles with impressively rapid costume changes, as the impotent bourgeois businessman, Chandebise, and as Poche, the hapless drunken flunky of the brothel punningly named the Coq d'Or.
Comic Christmas Crackers
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The title was something to do with punning on ‘writer's block’ or ‘bloggers' rights’.
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The punning allusion would have delighted at least some contemporaries.
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But there is an admirable lack of the loathsomeness of punning headlines; everywhere, the book plays it straight, and plays it true.
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A possible etymology for "lilo" could start with the phrase "lie low," which then inspired the punning brand name "LI-LO" (established for decades), which in turn gave rise to the generic "lilo" for any air mattress.
Divided by a Common Language in The London Eye
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He's always punning and I don't find it funny.
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The plots usually concerned customs surrounding marriage and procreation, while mocking the earthier aspects of love and sex, and punning on gender reversals.
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On the large tablet above the piscina is a punning motto, _Temperantia te Temperatrice_, the person commemorated being Richard Tryce, 1767.
The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
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In On the Power of Sound, the problem posed is, as the Argument puts it, how to unite all the sounds of the world — so dangerous in their potency — into "a scheme or system for moral interests and intellectual contemplation" (2: 323) - or what stanza XI punningly calls a "scale of moral music — to unite/Powers that survive but in the faintest dream/Of memory" (170-72, my italics).
The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth
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Security saw some kind of intolerable threat in a punning message on a balloon?
Times, Sunday Times
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A sceptical punning humour spotlighted fashionable absurdities.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a densely allusive, punning, always associative flow that manages to keep its narrative movement alive with dizzying glances in all directions along the way.
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His reputation was revived by the Surrealists, who admired his visual punning.
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Punning (sometimes called canting) bookplates use an image relating to the owner's name.
Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie
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Many philosophers and social scientists regard Derrida and Lacan primarily as literary jesters, as both are noted for their elaborate punning and impenetrably dense style.
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To be sure, with the licences of interpretation, which the Fathers of the first three or four centuries allowed themselves, and with the 'arcana' of evolution by word, letter, allegory, yea, punning, which they applied to detached sentences or single phrases of Holy Writ, it would not be easy to imagine a position which they could not 'shew in Scripture.'
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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his constant punning irritated her
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The present US administration alone has generated travelgate, nannygate, sexgate, troopergate, fornigate, whitewatergate (at least that one has a punning reference to the original), and filegate.
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This subject, called punningly by Lacan le sujet troue (the subject full of holes), uses an objet trouvé (a found object) to figure both the hole and the bit that's missing.
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The hotelier family's punning motif-a bull with its horns to the ground-was woven into the vestibule carpet.
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The horrendous punning title should have been excised.
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Punning, together with other forms of humor, can be an efficient pedagogical tool in English classes.
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As its slyly punning title suggests, this 1999 documentary is Herzog's tribute to his doppelganger.
