Word-play Sentence Examples

Goodall's infectious tunes which included light opera and modern musical theater numbers - were complemented by dazzling word play from Hart.

I told her they were tulips; but of course she didn't understand the word-play.

Compulsive punsters, their name is a word-play on a Spanish department store and the slang for âI stealâ.

It 's all down to word play and the ability to catch the judges ' eye with simple phrases or snappy slogans.

Scrabble words have been puzzling generations who love the strategical word play that happens on the Scrabble board.

In the former there had been a fusion between the Radicals, supporters of the autonomy of Poland and a federal constitution for the empire, and the Independence party (Osvobozhdenya) formed by political exiles at Paris in 1903, the fusion taking the name of Constitutional Democrats, known (from a word-play on the initials K.D.) as " Cadets."

By a species of word-play the name was interpreted as "the son of the chamber," with reference perhaps to the sacred chamber of fate in which he sat in judgment on the New Year's festival.

Elsewhere, analysts often show a penchant for word play to get a point across.