Can You Use “Anagrams” in a Sentence?

§  She wasn’t faking her naiveté… she was a GENUINE INGENUE.

§  “I’ll show you that I can change my spots,” promised the PAROLED LEOPARD.

§  “My grandmother answered a phone call from ‘Microsoft’ and got scammed by some RUTHLESS HUSTLERS.”

§  “The very next day, my grandmother bought a million dollars worth of life insurance from some NAMELESS SALESMAN.”

§  Our friend Xander, the quantum physics major, was the dorm’s NERDIEST RESIDENT.

§  “Your leatherneck buddies have all gone home, but the AIRMEN REMAIN, MARINE!” taunted the drunken top-gun pilot.

§  The corner-cutting electrician often went shopping for DISCOUNT CONDUITS.

§  Felicity Huffman and Lori Laughlin apparently believe in AUCTIONED EDUCATION.

§  Cops say that nabbing the perpetrator at the scene of the crime is the RAREST ARREST.

§  If you don’t want your drinks to wobble, you have to sit at one of the STABLE TABLES.

§  In his Confessions, Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE) portrayed himself as a sinner but he was SAINTED INSTEAD.

And you thought you wouldn’t have to learn anything today.

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10 responses to Can You Use “Anagrams” in a Sentence?

  1. Paul Sieg says:

    I love “word play.” Thanks.

  2. Dorothy says:

    I’ve always loved anagrams! I marvel at the Jeopardy! Contestants when it’s in the category responses … thanks!!

  3. Sue Collins says:

    It made my brain tired!

  4. Pete says:

    Pretty witty, dad!

    (My only word skill is alliteration)

  5. Clay Tarver says:

    Cheers to whoever can find a palindromic anagram.

  6. Clay says:

    Cheers! My best was “Hurry up, honey! Don’t be a LAG GAL!”.

  7. Clay says:

    The note before “do” is “ti”. It is easy to remember, just think of that Julie Andrews movie.

  8. rob says:

    Cigar, Collins.

  9. Gavin Larsen says:

    How long did it take you to come up with all these???
    Hats off to ya!

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