punning

How To Use punning In A Sentence

• Who else would write, let alone attempt to sing, a line such as ‘I hate verisimilitude’, or punningly entitle a song ‘Neil Jung’?
• But there is an admirable lack of the loathsomeness of punning headlines; everywhere, the book plays it straight, and plays it true.
• The punning allusion would have delighted at least some contemporaries.
• The title was something to do with punning on ‘writer's block’ or ‘bloggers' rights’.
• 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
• We are all, it concluded punningly, made from the dust of an exploding distant star. Times, Sunday Times
• 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.
• No art, nothing but some sadly punning slogans and the most uninspired, turgid and solipsistically verbose writing. Times, Sunday Times
• 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
• An awl is an iron instrument used for piercing leather, but the word has been in punning use since time immemorial.