How to Use double entendre in a Sentence

double entendre

noun

• The song's title is a double entendre.
• The queue for the queue (yes, there was one) was dubbed QEII, a playful double entendre for the line and the queen.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
• Most of her work came with double entendres that were sharp as swords and could quickly be turned on their heads.
  — Koko Ntuen, Teen Vogue, 17 Aug. 2018
• Not content with a mere double entendre, Elon Musk hits at least three.
  — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 7 July 2020
• There was almost a double entendre, like an S&M meaning that could be read into all of the lyrics.
  — Brittany Vincent, Billboard, 1 Sep. 2017
• The bar's party atmosphere and drinks menu ripe with double entendre are hard to miss.
  — Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic, 8 Apr. 2021
• For Cannon, who added three children to his already full crew of five in 2021, the cocktail was a double entendre.
  — Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 9 June 2022
• Take a Fuddruckers ad from the early 1980s that is rife with double entendres.
  — Maria Cramer, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2020
• The band released a video announcement Tuesday that is a one-note double entendre.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 12 Oct. 2022
• Your biggest weapon as a battle rapper is a double entendre, word scheme, metaphors.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Aug. 2023
• Midland is not alone in its reverence for double entendres and crooked lines.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 21 Feb. 2018
• Look beyond Dana Osborne’s clever costumes and double entendres of all kinds abound.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2019
• Maybe, but in that wizarding world, there’s far more potential for double entendres and kinky puns.
  — John Wenzel, The Know, 19 Aug. 2019
• Most kids’ animation is pap: conventions and tropes punched up with smarmy double entendre for the benefit of the adults who bought the tickets.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2020
• The creator Adam Goldman’s script is filled with sharp dialogue and enough double entendre to keep you giggling minutes after the jokes land.
  — Eric McQuade, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2021
• Others pointed out that the show has always been a little risqué, relying on double entendres since its start decades ago.
  — Megan Friedman, Country Living, 15 Aug. 2018
• Artistic director Kevin Stalheim explained that a number of pieces on the program would be loaded with double entendre on the words piece and peace.
  — Elaine Schmidt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2018
• There will be a broken dam’s worth of literary and pop-cultural references along with a steady flow of double entendres.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2023
• Cantonese is supple, playful, full of puns and double entendres.
  — Yi-Ling Liu, Harper's Magazine, 31 Aug. 2019
• And then there's the grande dame, Lady Edith (Glenn Close), a shotgun-wielding aunt who pops up every now and again to elucidate some themes with glorious double entendres.
  — Katie Walsh, latimes.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• The footage was rife with double entendres aimed at Hollywood, as well as direct references to Marvel and Disney.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Apr. 2024
• Cringe workout shot: A visual double entendre for the swinging singles aerobics club involving a pin that runs up and down through a stack of weights during reps.
  — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 16 June 2022
• Any of the show’s songs referencing orgasms rely on double entendres and other word play.
  — Whitney Friedlander, Marie Claire, 1 Mar. 2019
• In such a prey on words, rare, medium, and well done are double entendres, so that six meanings are packed into the space ordinarily occupied by just three.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2023
• The play’s humor depends on fast-talk, anachronistic modern references, puns and double entendres — and MacKinnon’s able cast gets all of this just right.
  — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• Each time that the pair meets up, their conversation is shrouded in innuendo and double entendre.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 31 Jan. 2020
• The song’s lyrics — a double entendre about wanting to both rekindle and seek revenge on a former lover — allude to the general lightheartedness prevalent throughout Guts.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2023
• Adkins, meanwhile, is much more the country-rocker, taking classic crunchy guitar riffs and retrofitting them with a touch of twang and subject matter full of fishing, pickup trucks and lots of winking double entendre.
  — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 25 Aug. 2019
• The song is a double entendre and testament to Noname’s creativity.
  — Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, Pitchfork, 18 Sep. 2023
• To confuse the authorities, who were always trying to find new music to censure and people to arrest, musicians used metaphors, double entendres, and allegories in their lyrics.
  — Matthew Dursum, SPIN, 20 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024