How to Use limerick in a Sentence

limerick

noun

• The affair is a glitzy one, ending in drinking games and dirty limericks.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Nov. 2019
• Isaac Asimov was enthralled with her and wrote her a limerick.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2021
• The show depicts the event as a loose, boozy affair featuring singing, dancing and the recitation of dirty limericks.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 17 Nov. 2019
• Most people know the limerick’s rigid meter and rhyme scheme—the first, second and fifth lines should rhyme with each other, as should the shorter third and fourth lines.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2017
• The title doesn’t have to appear within the limerick itself.
  — Washington Post, 17 June 2021
• Joe Orlando of Mesa wrote this winning limerick: The haboob blows through here each year.
  — Richard Ruelas, azcentral, 10 July 2018
• By definition, a limerick is a nonsense poem of five anapestic lines, of which lines one, two and five are of three feet and rhyme and lines three and four are of two feet and rhyme.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2021
• And no history of the limerick, or of light verse, can escape his imposing presence.
  — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
• On the show Margaret engages in a round of dirty-limerick reciting with the U.S. president, which may not have happened in real life but certainly makes a good story.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 18 Nov. 2019
• In Act 2 … the show stops dead while Lewis does a stand-up routine, reciting off-color limericks, Polish jokes and rabbi stories while trying to catch but missing 16 canes that are thrown in from off-stage.
  — Lawrence Toppman, charlotteobserver, 20 Aug. 2017
• No small children have been rugby-tackled, and no prize-winning limericks have been penned about Turkey's President Erdoğan having sex with a goat.
  — Isobel Thompson, The Hive, 26 Apr. 2017
• An editor read through submissions for a St. Patrick’s Day limerick contest.
  — Rick Rojas, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2017
• None of the impressionistic muddle of rock lyrics for them; their subjects, scenarios and verbal conceits are as clear and legible as limericks.
  — Nitsuh Abebe, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
• The limerick packs laughs anatomical Into space that is quite economical.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2021
• My colleague Kari Sonde, who explored popcorn-frying the little buggers, recalled that after the recipe was published, one reader submitted a limerick suggesting she be fired.
  — Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2021
• According to reports, the limerick, below, was publically posted in the bookstore.
  — Katie Van Syckle, The Cut, 23 Jan. 2018
• John enjoyed reciting limericks, gardening and watching his children and grandchildren play sports.
  — courant.com, 3 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024