Sample Sentences for
limerick
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    Once the message became public knowledge, gunters nicknamed it "the Limerick." The Copper Key awaits explorers In a tomb filled with horrors But you have much to learn If you hope to earn A place among the high scorers  (source)
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    LIMERICK by Nate Wright: I have feasted on all sorts of noodles, I have tried an assortment of strudels. Of the foods that I've eaten, Only one can't be beaten: An extra large bag of Cheez Doodles.  (source)
    LIMERICK = a humorous 5-line poem with a rhyme scheme of aabba
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    I am reminded of the famous limerick: There was a young man from Stamboul, Who soliloquized thus to his tool, 'You took all my wealth And you ruined my health, And now you won't pee, you old fool'  (source)
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    A limerick, actually: There once was a girl from Manhattan Who slept only on sheets made of satin Her husband slipped and he slided And their bodies collided So they did something dirty in Latin.  (source)
    limerick = a 5-line poem with a rhyme scheme of aabba
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    And everyone who read Sonnets of a Sorcerer spoke in limericks for the rest of their lives.  (source)
    limericks = a poem consisting of 5 lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
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    "I'm trying to think of a limerick," said Eustace.  (source)
    limerick = a humorous 5-line poem with a rhyme scheme of aabba
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    He must've been really upset with me to send me limericks instead of haiku.  (source)
    limericks = a humorous poem consisting of 5 lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
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    Maybe she will try writing again, nothing too ambitious, a fun poem in the limerick mode.  (source)
    limerick = a humorous 5-line poem with a rhyme scheme of aabba
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    I've got dirty limericks to write here.  (source)
    limericks = humorous 5-line poems with a rhyme scheme of aabba
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    If Paul Revere had written a limerick, you'd think it was wonderful, poetic, inspirational.  (source)
    limerick = a humorous 5-line poem with a rhyme scheme of aabba
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    He still had a horse and wagon, and it was not too uncommon then to see Bobby riding around the mill village in his long underwear, drunk as a lord, alternately singing and cussing and—it must be said—shouting out bawdy limericks to mill workers and church ladies.  (source)
    limericks = humorous 5-line poems with a rhyme scheme of aabba
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    Bad poetry, but even Helen of Troy probably started with, like, a limerick, right?  (source)
    limerick = a humorous 5-line poem with a rhyme scheme of aabba
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    One night Matron took Ghosh aside and said: "Your limericks are usurping my prayers."  (source)
    limericks = humorous 5-line poems with a rhyme scheme of aabba
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    I knew they were exasperated with Da, but they had little patience for Mam, either, whose people were from Limerick and never lifted a finger to help.  (source)
    Limerick = a city or county in Ireland
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    If he gets a job at the Limerick Cement Company or Rank's Flour Mills he loses it in the third week.  (source)
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    I could parachute you into County Limerick this very day, Mr. McLean, and it is very likely that within a single year you'd be cultivating potatoes, courting an ugly Irish wench, and running guns for the IRA.  (source)
    Limerick = county in Ireland
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    He would be named Patrick for the first of my line of Grogans to arrive in the United States from County Limerick, Ireland.  (source)
    Limerick = county in Ireland
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    My first cousin, Fonsy Davin, was stripped to his buff that day minding cool for the Limericks but he was up with the forwards half the time and shouting like mad.  (source)
    Limericks = people from the city or county of Limerick, Ireland
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    From October to April the walls of Limerick glistened with the damp.  (source)
    Limerick = a city or county in Ireland
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    Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain.  (source)
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    No one knew why he was called Ab Sheehan, The Abbot, but all Limerick loved him.  (source)
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    We have morals in Limerick, you know, morals.  (source)
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    No son of his would have a Limerick name.  (source)
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    Philomena will write it because a teacher in Limerick told her once she had a fine fist.  (source)
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    I think we better go now or we'll be missing that train to Limerick.  (source)
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    There is no hope of a laboring man with a North of Ireland accent getting a job in Limerick.  (source)
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