limerick
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Email your limerick and name to [email protected] by noon Monday, and if we get enough fun ones, we’ll publish a selection to carry us into spring.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
Entrants would write the final line of a limerick to enter into the draw to win a brand new car.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2023
For today’s homework, try to mix and match a format, a style and a topic — like, “Write a limerick in the style of Snoop Dogg about global warming.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
By “significantly,” we mean that a “he” or “her” won’t qualify your limerick unless it were really focused on that word.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2021
"I insist upon hearing this limerick," Miss Honey said, smiling one of her rare smiles.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
This Poe is a rum sort, pallid and pie-eyed and with a fondness for limericks.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2022
She made pea soup for Occupy Oakland activists in 2011 and drew thousands of political cartoons, often accompanied by bawdy limericks, that she distributed at protests and rallies.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2021
This year we did limericks that feature words and names beginning “he-.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2021
She liked writing jokes and limericks; then, when she was 14, her mother bought a piano “as a piece of furniture,” Armatrading recalled.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2021
Olly: haikus are awful, they're just less fun limericks Madeline: You've been downgraded from heathen to heretic.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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