as in sonnet
a humorous rhyming composition of five lines
She recited an old limerick which elicited guffaws from the crowd
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Recent Examples of limerick
There’s a person writing beautiful custom poems that are sort of dirty limericks.
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Emily Leibert, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2024
Instead, what we’re served feels more like dirty limericks delivered at an excruciating pace by a bore with bad breath.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
In countless interviews, Joel has mused that the waltzing chord progression is monotonous and the lyrics akin to limericks.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024
Until then, feel free to send me your best limericks at [email protected].
—Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 15 Feb. 2024
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Emily Leibert, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2024
Instead, what we’re served feels more like dirty limericks delivered at an excruciating pace by a bore with bad breath.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
In countless interviews, Joel has mused that the waltzing chord progression is monotonous and the lyrics akin to limericks.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024
Until then, feel free to send me your best limericks at [email protected].
—Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 15 Feb. 2024
See All Example Sentences for limerick
Recent Examples of Synonyms for limerick
Noun
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In his gorgeous and arresting debut, Nick Martino hurtles through a variety of forms—from sonnets to visual poems to works of visual art—to vividly portray and reflect on a teenager’s world during and after the speaker’s parents’ divorce and his father’s incarceration.—
Craig Morgan Teicher,
Literary Hub,
1 June 2026
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My expertise, for example, is in the African American sonnet tradition.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
12 May 2026
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The song’s most revealing lyrics come in its second verse, when Rodrigo sings of this girl sending him poems and posting in his clothes.—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
12 June 2026
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Batchelor’s poems have appeared in The Nation, Columbia Journal, cream city review, and elsewhere.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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The rhyme references a viral chant that has taken the internet by storm during the NBA Finals in which the Knicks are currently up 3-1 against the San Antonio Spurs.—
Marina Watts,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 June 2026
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It's got a lot going on, but there's a reason to every rhyme.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
6 June 2026
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Over the course of Gregory Orr’s long career, his poems have become increasingly incantatory, more and more like chants or psalms, repeating, reformulating, reaching for the edges of the same rich metaphors.—
Craig Morgan Teicher,
Literary Hub,
1 June 2026
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The epitome of that tradition is Choral Evensong, an evening service of hymns, psalms and prayers laid out by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, the first Protestant archbishop of the Church of England, in 1549.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 Apr. 2026
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While some relationships are causing chaos in the Bravo-verse, others are just entertaining to learn about.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
16 June 2026
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The portion of the Genesis verse cited by Roupp on his hat included God's promise to never again send a worldwide flood and the rainbow in the sky is the sign of that covenant.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 June 2026
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“Limerick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/limerick. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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