Example Sentences

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But the Empress won’t turn away wordplays that use the same word with different meanings.

From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2017

Still running — deadline Monday night, July 6: Our contest for wordplays on foreign terms.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2015

When in doubt, make tragic wordplays and drench them with alliteration.

From Slate • Apr. 22, 2013

Turning to the news media, the psychic said the tabloids would run out of obvious wordplays on Cathleen P. Black’s surname.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2010

Among the happiest of his controlled skids is Fred Willard as Buck Laughlin, a supremely confident, supremely clueless TV commentator filling time with proctologist jokes, making awful wordplays when the Shih Tzu appears.

From Time Magazine Archive