pun

Example Sentences

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As a viewer begins to realize, these blind alleys, pun intended, are going to lead nowhere.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

In good Dada and Pop art-style, the work’s title turns out to be a pun: A deed is not just a real estate certificate but an endeavor that one has undertaken.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

The morning newspapers saluted him with "Zendabad" - a pun on zindabad, the Urdu word for long live.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025

Those ads, which centered around a pun on the phrase “good genes,” were accused of promoting eugenics.

From Salon • Aug. 24, 2025

It’s Baba’s favorite joke in Spanish, a pun.

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar