How To Use Jabberwocky In A Sentence

  • What sounds meaningful reads like jabberwocky.
  • This is jabberwocky food: rootless, borderless, motherless, in-the-style-of food. Times, Sunday Times
  • Penelope describes what this means and the agony and pleasure of streams of jabberwocky issuing forth from a man of words.
  • Max Abelson and Michael McDonald of Bloomberg News debunked her "untarnished" track record and Spaceballs-worthy jabberwocky: The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • For one thing, the virus is spread through words, resulting in the kind of jabberwocky that makes experimental ninth-grade creative writing classes sound like The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Quelle Horreur! Summer Fright Flicks are DOA
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  • If you the sleeplessly cartwheel as it is, you viscacha, in my retinal, an numbfish to miscreant the observingly sheldrake foraminifera steinbeck. tensity ellipsoidal, disobediently kubrick, from cold aegilops ballroom to hoist, to streptokinase, to dextrality with jabberwocky fibrin and guardant cliquishness. Rational Review
  • Herrera's portmanteau style and ludic impulse constitute a form of visual jabberwocky, in which the familiar is confidently manipulated and destabilized.
  • Lewis Carroll used the term portmanteau to describe a neologism with “two meanings packed up into one word”; his nonsense verse Jabberwocky (pictured) is full of them. June « 2008 « Sentence first
  • Yes, this musical "jabberwocky" sounded like a work from twenty years ago. Sequenza21/
  • He nominated these two guys -- if I may call them that -- he nominated these two guys after the deadline so he has to wait until 2004 and I just think we're in some kind of jabberwocky world where you nominate some one who declares a war for the Peace Prize. CNN Transcript May 8, 2003
  • Saatchi, of course, had a merry group of fawning lackeys to give him confidence, to spout on his behalf the jargon and jabberwocky of the contemporary curator. Evening Standard - Home
  • Lewis Carroll is before the 85 years of weird butJabberwocky would be on that list. Weird Tales’ 85 Weirdest « Colleen Anderson
  • But those winds were futile as a device for prying away such an inspissated couple for once they were together this man and woman babbled to each other a mutually pleasurable one word jabberwocky despite the fiercely driven rains, hail, and the flash flood at their feet. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
  • Nowadays the word jabberwocky is used to mean nonsensical language in general. †"V Venkata Rao, Ahmedabad The Times of India
  • 7. The word "jabberwocky" was coined by Lewis Carroll as the title of a poem in "Alice in Wonderland. March 2009
  • Along the way, she meets a cavalcade of kooks and strange creatures including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, the White Knight, Humpty Dumpty, and the Jabberwocky.
  • Herrera's portmanteau style and ludic impulse constitute a form of visual jabberwocky, in which the familiar is confidently manipulated and destabilized.
  • The word "jabberwocky" was coined by Lewis Carroll as the title of a poem in "Alice in Wonderland. The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference
  • Forty-four Republican senators vowed to block anyone unless and until they were satisfied that Congress would have real control over the corporation-killing, lefty jabberwocky sired by those scourges of economic growth, Senator Dodd and Representative Frank. Adam Levin: Consumers Be Damned: Senator Shelby, Captain Queeg and the Politics of No
  • Humpty Dumpty, the semanticist, tells Alice that "slithy," in Jabberwocky, is such a form, derived from "lithe" and "slimy. Robin Lakoff: Cutting to the Chase
  • Spooky and I fell asleep talking about how marvelous is Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, especially the Hatter and the March Hare, the Bandersnatch and the battle with the Jabberwocky. "...moments before it spat its rain down on me."
  • They don't want jabberwocky or gobbledegook going full bore.
  • Last month Trevor posted a Wordie list, subtitled Econorrhea, of neologisms and portmanteaux having to do with the economic implosion, which he has now worked into a Jabberwocky parody* on Recessionwire — which is itself compiling the beginnings of what could be something fun: a recession lexicon. Beware the Econorrhea
  • Also the jabberwockies, this huge beak, I’ve never seen a jabberwocky done before. Interview: Nick Willing and Caterina Scorsone of Alice - Pink Raygun.com
  • a bit of "jabberwocky" .. but the truth is, as I wrote, that netanyahu is the lesser of the evils. Israelated - English Israel blogs

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