Sentence examples for punned from inspiring English sources
The Philadelphia Daily News responded to Mr Trump's call for a ban with a cover that punned on Führer, the German word for 'leader' and Hitler's title.
The reader was punned by stealth!" As I mentioned, he is a very chirpy man.
Young has generally produced his own records, or worked with co-producers in his stable, so as not to spook the horse, but here he gives himself over to Lanois (whose name is overtly punned upon in the title).
For want of a nail, he now punned to himself, the kingdom was lost.
Robert Lowell punned on Coleridge ("Robert Frost at midnight, the audience gone / to vapor") in his sonnet for Frost, and John Berryman, who remembered both Frost's "malice" and his "good / big face," put it succinctly: "For a while here we possessed / an unusual man".
Coover's title punned on the page-turning powers of the codex, which sweeps novel readers inexorably from Page 1 to The End. (He ignored how many codices, like the Yellow Pages, are designed for random access; millenniums before the advent of Bible.com, the codex allowed the first Christians to cross-reference their Scriptures).
It was, pun very much intended, a trainwreck.
During Hillary Clinton's last run for the US presidency, a run of Hillary nut-crackers – pun intended – sold out several times over.
10 21: The earnest crowd fails to appreciate Barack Obama's inadvisable "eight is enough" pun, chanting it over and over again.
A government official said there had been "frank exchanges" between the authorities and the companies.Indeed.Saudi officials poured water on the idea of oil production cuts, suggesting that markets are currently well supplied (pun much?).
It's a peculiar thing, when you think about it, that a miserable pun has become as important as the Queen's Speech and The Wizard of Oz.
