Sentence examples for a pun of from inspiring English sources
The phrase "a pun of" is not correct in standard written English
The correct expression would typically be "a pun on." Example: "He made a pun on the word 'bark' when talking about dogs."
He has just finished writing "Three Mistakes of My Life," a pun of sorts, this being his third novel.
Sir Thomas More's learned satire Utopia (1516)—the title is based on a pun of the Greek words eutopia ("good place") and outopia ("no place")—shed an analytic light on 16th-century England along rational, humanistic lines.
"To analyze a pun of Hamlet's, for instance, I would first have to consider why a man so grief-stricken by the death of his father would bother to joke at all.
There he would receive visitors, and his companion Phyllis King, in a reception room filled with clutter, pictures and curios, including his harmonium, some ivory cutlery (a pun, of course) and a wax ear stapled to the wall with six-inch nails - proof of his dedication to the Noise Abatement Society, because of which he forbade his audience ever to whistle in appreciation at his work.
The title of the album series, New Amerykah, is a pun of Badu's name.
I just hoped I wouldn't fail to live up to a pun of this magnitude.
Internet of Elephants (a pun on "Internet of Everything") brings together and tips its hat at a number of innovations in the worlds of mobile and gaming.
Even the title, "Une Histoire d'Eau" ("A Story of Water"), was a pun — on the title of the erotic best-seller "Histoire d'O" ("The Story of O").
And if I had a dollar for everyone who has made a pun out of my last name, I would be a very rich man.
Ethically and humanly it is not necessary to make a pun out of someone's name.
But at least it was identifiable as a pun on Mary, Queen of Scots.
