jabberwocky
Example Sentences
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What were these jabberwocky words arranged in this order doing here?
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2022
Her intolerance for political jabberwocky and inflated ego was equaled by her seemingly boundless personal generosity, which often led her to help strangers in need.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2021
Me: “Was brelig in the slithy toads did gire and bible in the raids and the mobe beware the jabberwocky my son the boys that catch the fenrous bender snatch long time the maxim foam.”
From BusinessWeek ● Aug. 9, 2012
Through puns and transpositions of literal and metaphorical imagery, Carroll transformed English into a kind of hallucinatory jabberwocky.
From Time Magazine Archive
Joe isn't interested in the plot because he doesn't know what the plot is all about, and the stilted jabberwocky in the printed libretto only confuses him further .
From Time Magazine Archive
