Sentence examples for paronomasia from inspiring English sources

The investment mania was interrupted by the financial crisis; the paronomasia seems unstoppable.For this decade, Mr O'Neill has suggested another term, "growth markets", defined as an emerging economy that accounts for more than 1% of global GDP.

Pun, also called paronomasia, a humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest different meanings or applications, or a play on words, as in the use of the word rings in the following nursery rhyme: Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross, To see a fine lady upon a white horse; Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes, She shall have music wherever she goes.

Using similarly-sounding words to generate new meanings for one or more of them is called "paronomasia" (Ames 2008), and at times, homonyms or near-homonyms are used to define a word, a technique used in China's first dictionary the Shuowen jiezi (ca. 1st century CE).