Example Sentences

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NoHo Hank survived to malaprop another day and the scene-stealing Carrigan went on to appear in every glorious episode of “Barry,” deemed 2018′s best show by The Washington Post.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2022

He makes his appearance with the malaprop assumption that Churchill is “Church Hill,” and he squeezes the last drop of embarrassment out of this blunder and all those to come.

From The New Yorker • May 18, 2016

Rodriguez meant baggage, but no one needed to correct him — not when he played for an organization that was home for so many decades to the master of the malaprop, Yogi Berra.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2016

A malaprop, by the way, is defined as an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously.

From Washington Times • Dec. 29, 2015

You’re officially the malaprop king, Nick, he says.

From "Booked" by Kwame Alexander