How to use pun in a sentence

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• The spoonerism "Burly Chassis" is a punning reference to Shirley Bassey's voluptuous figure.From the entry punning
• "If you want beer puns, I can go on forever," Mac said, raising his pint glass.2018, Ellie Alexander, The Pint of No Return - A Mystery. From the entry beauty is in the eye of the beer holder
• It’s a stupid pun,” said Gaze who moved to the area about 15 years ago.2016 March 15, Mark Tran, “Broccoli in Brockley: sand sculptor in 'fat cat' gentrification protest”, in The Guardian. From the entry rollie
• Puns so eye-rollingly BAD, they're an abomination to the vampire's refined senses.2013, Rita Harris, Heather Harwood, Your Guide to Spotting and Outing Bloodsuckers at Work, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry vampireyness
• Everything was a labyrinthine amalgam of languages, a towering Babel of puns and glossolalia.2012, Andy Martin, “Text Messenger”, in Literary Review, London: The Literary Review & Quarto, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 404. From the entry glossolalia
• Since then, writing romantica has become a passion (no pun intended).2012, “About the Author”, in Madison Lake, A Cloud of Hawthorne: A Real Old Fashion Romance, with Titillating Tid-Bits, FriesenPress…. From the entry romantica
• It must be eggsasperating reading all these eggscentric and eggsotic puns on eggs.2012, Lederer, Richard, Cleverly comical animal jokes, page 39. From the entry eggstatic
• "Anybody who grow up pun a farm would reckonize she face alright."2011, Raymond Gordon, The Ecclesiastical Chronicles, Volume Two: The Society, Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 384. From the entry reckonize
• Don't just turn around and leave before you give it a shot (pardon the pun).2008, David Applefield, The Unofficial Guide to Paris, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 306. From the entry Turkish toilet
• Punning, and competition therein, was encouraged—nay, actively abetted—by Callahan, himself a hopeless and utterly shameless paronomasiac.2004, Spider Robinson, Off The Wall At Callahan's, Macmillan, page 9. From the entry paronomasiac
• Oddworld Inhabitants, partly because it’s a nice pun, wants you to believe that Oddworld Just Got Stranger.2004 October, “Oddworld Stranger”, in Dan Toose, editor, Edge Australia, Bondi Junction, N.S.W.: Derwent Howard, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30…. From the entry normaller
• Garcia particularly cherished catma as a concept; it is a delicious pun.2002, Dennis McNally, A Long Strange Trip, page 105. From the entry catma
• I have not said much about Musica Ficta's multiple puns, parodies, oxymorous games with language.1993, Veronica Brady, Westerly, page 130. From the entry oxymorous
• The basic element which transforms names and placenames into narratives or narrative details is the pun.1976, Sean Valentine Golden, Bygmythster Finnegan: Etymology As Poetics In the Works of James Joyce, University of Connecticut. From the entry etymythology
• Puns and similar witticisms are irrepressibly scattered all thru fan writings, even the most sercon.1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II, Humor. From the entry sercon
• His pet name for her was Rilla-my-Rilla - a little pun on her real name, Marilla.1921, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside, Echo Library, published 2006, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry Rilla
• LIZ LARSEN and Terrence Mann sing foul puns about human-infused meat-pies in “Sweeney Todd” at Connecticut Repertory Theatre through July 1.2018 June 26, Christopher Arnott, “Terrence Mann Kills As Demon Barber”, in Hartford Courant, volume CLXXXII, number 177, Hartford, Conn.…. From the entry meat-pie
• ONE of The Donald's trump cards, if you will forgive the pun, is the economy - what he calls Trumponomics.2016, March 4, Chris Roycroft-Davis, "His economic plan could be a trump card for Donald", The Express (London). From the entry Trumponomics
• Cryptic definitions are the clues you see with question marks in American puzzles, denoting Burns and Allen-style puns.2013 May 1, T. Campbell, On Crosswords: Thoughts, Studies, Facts and Snark About a 100-Year-Old Pastime, Morgan James Publishing, →ISBN…. From the entry cryptic definition
• In the '40s, I remember ludicrous puns thought to be funny and repeated by teenagers, sometimes to a chorus of laughter.2005, Donald W. McCaffrey, The Road to Comedy: The Films of Bob Hope, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 2. From the entry groaner
• One thing that can be inferred is that "Ghosts", a very shippy episode, apparently didn't scare (pun intended) any viewers away.1999 January 7, storml...@hotmail.com, “Re: X-Files Ratings For Terms of Endearment”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet). From the entry shippy
• The term utopia comes from a Greek pun.1998, L. Kip Wheeler, Utopian Literature. From the entry comes
• From the cleverest repartee to the worst groaner, people use and respond to puns, but sometimes find them hard to define.1993, Peggy O'Brien, Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page…. From the entry groaner
• A word invented by Dean Grennell to denote extreme astonishment, and very handy to describe the effect of his puns.1986 November, Walt Willis, “The Harp that Once or Twice”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 8, page 7. From the entry crogglement
• However, very often it is difficult to see the trees through the forest, if I may make a pun.1984, Robert Bruck (quoted), Effects of Air Pollution and Acid Rain on Forest Decline, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 43. From the entry see the trees through the forest
• There is a reminiscence, which comes and goes, of Mexican words, of Mexican turns of speech and puns.1972, Barbara Bockus Aponte, quoting Alfonso Reyes, “Ramón del Valle-Inclán”, in Alfonso Reyes and Spain: His Dialogue with Unamuno…. From the entry liminal
• Punning in an Ophelian frenzy on the feminine glans?1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, published 1990, →ISBN. From the entry Ophelian
• Fielding is let off lightly with a running comment on his misspellings and other peculiarities of style—deliberate punning and emvoweling.1915, Gerard Edward Jensen, “Introduction”, in The Covent Garden Journal, volume I, New Haven: Yale University Press, page 69. From the entry emvowel
• Hastily adapted by slovenly hacks, their librettos (often witty in the original) became incredible farragos of metreless doggrel and punning ineptitude.1911, “Drama, 11f: Modern English Drama”, in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition. From the entry farrago
• Obligatory cat pun coming up . . . this book is a purrfect gift for the cat lady or cat dude in your life.2013, NPR book review, quoted on the praise page of John Bradshaw, Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to…. From the entry purrfect
• Didn't the Alfred Bester tribute in one of the Callahan's Bar stories use the old geologist's pun of describing a young woman as "spathic"?2003 September 26, "Captain Button" (username), "Re: Orogeny, erogeny wasn't Re: Slide rules", in rec.arts.sf.written and sci.geo.geology…. From the entry spathic
• With their internal rhymings and cryptic puns and allusions, Williams's lines of dialogue may tax the actor as well as the audience.1996, Charles Adolph Huttar, Peter J. Schakel, The Rhetoric of Vision: Essays on Charles Williams, page 228. From the entry rhyming
• Vi's penchant for puns had struck him as cute when he first met her, but it had staled somewhat over the years.1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger. From the entry stale
• We may crack a smile at the little pun, but clean, undangerous puns have to be very virtuosic to get a strong reaction.1984 April 28, George Bozeman, “Spoiled Jokes”, in Gay Community News, page 4. From the entry undangerous
• If the French for pun, calembour, derives (as Spitzer maintained) from "conundrum"; this points up well the at first puzzling effect of such devices.1977, Robert H. Stacy, Defamiliarization in Language and Literature, page 51. From the entry hobson-jobson
• It comes in the form of a mask, or a harmless owl, or a punning resemblance in the soft muzzle of a horseface.1971, ARTnews, page 28. From the entry horseface
• Now he's too eager for the graveyard pun or, if he's trying too hard, the Billy Collins premise that sucks all the air out of a poem.2014, William Logan, Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure: The Dirty Art of Poetry, →ISBN, page 143. From the entry suck all the air out of
• It's a good job there was no need for a baseball infographic about “The joker” because I'd have been forced to use a terrible pun: the pompatus of glove.2011, Craig Robinson, Flip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure, →ISBN. From the entry pompatus

Meaning of pun

1. verb To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.
2. verb To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.
3. noun A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.

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Questions about pun in a sentence

How do you use pun in a sentence?

Pun is used as a verb and noun. For example: “We punned about the topic until all around us groaned.”

What is a short sentence with pun?

“The pun is the lowest form of wit.”

What does pun mean?

Pun means to beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.