Sentence examples for an amusing name from inspiring English sources
A vegetarian alternative would be agar-agar, which not only is kinder to the animals, but also has an amusing name.
Lest you think that I'm just trying to get an easy laugh out of a mildly amusing name, let me assure you: you are quite right.
It might be a far more amusing name if it wasn't for nearly every off-field scandal involving an NRL player ever.
This just landed in our inbox: a pitch for a new URL shortener with the slightly amusing name Bu.tt, which is of course described by its creator – John McKinnon – as a shortening service that "kicks it".
He has an amusing last name, but John Hickenlooper's popularity as the outgoing governor of swing-state Colorado is no joke.
The amusing name itself comes from how much a driver or rider says they like to talk and share on their rides.
The amusing name refers to its divided leaves, not its appetite, but I am also fond of the way it decorates your shoelaces with burrs that stick like hedgehogs in a football net.
An animal with a funny name has apparently met a not-so-amusing fate.
Halfway through the book there is a long episode about a cricket match played between Britannula and a touring team from England, which gives Trollope an opportunity to indulge his penchant for amusing names (Lord Marylebone and Sir Kennington Oval) and to fantasise about the future development of the game.
Doctors have a not-so-amusing name for this common plague of women in the throes of a new sexual relationship: They call it honeymoon cystitis.
(They were also one of several Victorian-era architectural partnerships with amusing names: Boring & Tilton, Hill & Stout, Harde & Short).
