Example Sentences

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This Poe is a rum sort, pallid and pie-eyed and with a fondness for limericks.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2022

Click here to skip down to the winning limericks.

From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2022

This year we did limericks that feature words and names beginning “he-.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2021

Mr. Bell — in normal times — would accompany his twin 10-year-olds, Samuel and Benjamin, to a special music school near Lincoln Center, connecting with them by playing trivia games and coming up with limericks.

From New York Times • May 12, 2020

He must’ve been really upset with me to send me limericks instead of haiku.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon