"Kernel Sanders" is a corny one

Usage examples of pun.

He would have to remember the pun to tell Alec Diger later, if there was a later.

Richmond, and she imagines the legions the place must harbor just below the historical surface, and laughs out loud, I think, as her punning answer occurs to her, with the added bonus of a message in it for me.

He named one of the sauciest of the old-time nautches, and smiled at his own pun.

Wally beta-tested a new pun he was working up, to the effect that if the promised paperless digital world ever materialized, writers would all be The Artists Formerly Known In Prints.

The air is full of real and false sweetmeats, pamphlets, pasquinades, and puns.

Certainly if Banville were to lay claim to having invented rhymes that are puns, we could only say that he was a plagiarist after reading Charles Poncy.

They were also riping people for the dangerous jobs, the jobs nobody in their right minds would take, pun intended.

He and I were once forcibly ejected from a Halifax restaurant called Chicken Tandoor for persistent punning.

Togarmi, Abulafia freely sprinkled his texts with codes, acrostics, and number-letter puns to simultaneously befuddle his persecutors and communicate freely with knowledgeable Spanish mystics like Joseph Gikatilia, a respected member of his circle.

The thrill of finding an allusion, of locating the precise source of a teasing echo, of suddenly catching an obscure pun or seeing what should have been an obvious joke makes the reader alert, curious, eager to find new puzzles to solve.

Those spineless types who talk about abolishing the apostrophe are missing the point, and the pun is very much intended.

Gobei laughed in delight at his own pun on the words for soup stock made of dried bonito and the word for soldier.

Hertz had suddenly remembered having seen Punning Parker in Havana a number of times recently, and the word had gotten around that Punning Parker was a bad but clever one.

But Punning Parker had just raked his chestnuts out of the fire by that dive under the keel.

Hertz purloined those ideas as his own, Punning did not say anything about it.