Contoh pun

• This dialogue of forms, meanings, intentions, and punning echoes of previous use constructs an interplay between constraint and creativity.

• His challenges are problematic and inconsistent and his objections are, please pardon the pun, unimaginative.

• On the other hand (as the pun drags on), however, the patient does not experience these actions as consciously willed.

• She notes the possibility that the footwear evidence might be explicable solely (pardon my pun) in terms of males.

• Note the pun on 'rayonnement', which means 'influence' as well as 'radiance'.

• Often, the names were witty puns on the originals.

• It is however in the realm of informal discourse that all types of ludic word-forming - from malapropisms to homonymic puns - thrive most richly.

• This is a vicious circle (pardon the pun).

• Too clever by half - and yet punning is simply putting things together in a witty and unexpected way.

• This is an elaborate and extensive pun on the hexachord in which the syllables are gradually assembled, line by line.

• Though the punning element is usually at the end of the phrase, instances are not uncommon where the pun is formed on the first element.

• One of the more admirable things about this collection of papers is how the authors resist the almost overwhelming temptation to employ food-related, lip-smacking puns.

• Rather than what sometimes seems like a list of numbers interspersed by puns, one would like to see their undoubted analytical powers deployed more vigorously.

• Political puns and jokes were heard there until 1984/1985.

• This riddle is solved by the realisation that each line contains a pun.