jabberwocky

Example Sentences

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The company also canceled an internal project code-named Jabberwocky and two other external games that were early in development.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2023

The gyres and gimbles of Jabberwocky are shouted in German, French and Russian.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2020

His linguistic universe, with its “covfefe,” big-league malapropisms, and contradictory pronouncements, often seems to come straight out of Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem "Jabberwocky."

From Salon • Jul. 28, 2018

I did poems in the style of the Jabberwocky.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 11, 2015

Doubtless the best and best-known example of versified words without meaning is "Jabberwocky."

From A Nonsense Anthology by Wells, Carolyn