Get to know Limericks better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Limericks meaning
plural of limerick
Using Limericks
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of limerick
- In the example corpus, limericks often appears in combinations such as: lear's limericks.
Context around Limericks
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 3 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Limericks
- In this selection, "limericks" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sweary, reading, halloween and round stand out and add context to how "limericks" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a sweary limericks round and and reading limericks like this. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "limericks" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with limericks
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The effervescent Khalid Rizvi recited several limericks in Urdu and snippets from ghazals. (13 words)
This week's Fartist Friday theme, brought to you by Halloween Limericks and Chill. (14 words)
Even their pub quiz is a little bit surreal – they have a sweary limericks round. (15 words)
Then Keillor found he could get laughs by writing and reading limericks like this one he recited in ninth-grade speech class: There was a young man of Anoka/Who tried to write a great limerick. (36 words)
Five of Lear's limericks from the Book of Nonsense, in the 1946 Italian translation by Carlo Izzo, were set to music for choir a cappella by Goffredo Petrassi in 1952. (31 words)
Filled with handwritten poems and limericks, along with illustrations, telegrams and photographs, the book was a way for guests to commemorate their stay. (23 words)
Example sentences (10)
Even their pub quiz is a little bit surreal – they have a sweary limericks round.
The effervescent Khalid Rizvi recited several limericks in Urdu and snippets from ghazals.
For some reason I feel I need to break out a 30 yr old book of Limericks.
Then Keillor found he could get laughs by writing and reading limericks like this one he recited in ninth-grade speech class: There was a young man of Anoka/Who tried to write a great limerick.
This week's Fartist Friday theme, brought to you by Halloween Limericks and Chill.
Bill Kurtis is going to read for you three news-related limericks with the last word or phrase missing from each.
Filled with handwritten poems and limericks, along with illustrations, telegrams and photographs, the book was a way for guests to commemorate their stay.
Five of Lear's limericks from the Book of Nonsense, in the 1946 Italian translation by Carlo Izzo, were set to music for choir a cappella by Goffredo Petrassi in 1952.
In early limericks, the last line was often essentially a repeat of the first line, although this is no longer customary.
Lear's limericks were often typeset in three or four lines, according to the space available under the accompanying picture.
Common combinations with limericks
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- lear's limericks 2×