double meaning
Example Sentences
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A mother’s screams of pain carry a woozy double meaning in a thematically saturated scene in the World War II drama “Amrum.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
It carries double meaning here at Backyard Party, a new all-ages music venue in a nondescript business park on the border of Pasadena and Altadena.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025
He simply defined it as a rhetorical device involving a double meaning.
From Salon • Nov. 29, 2024
“Accordion Eulogies” brims with such phrases: efficient, poetic, often delivered with double meaning.
From Seattle Times • May 17, 2024
Puh-leaze—she can’t even count all the times in the last few weeks when nature or weather or some animal provided some annoying double meaning.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
