How to Use double entendre in a Sentence

double entendre

noun
  • The song's title is a double entendre.
  • Taylor does love a double entendre, after all.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Every twist and turn in that speech has a double entendre, a family meeting, inside [jokes about] baseball.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • This time around, instead of cleavage and double entendres, Sweeney was all smiles in a modest, casual look on the beach.
    — Gabrielle Fonrouge, CNBC, 28 May 2026
  • The saucy track bemoans a 335-day dry spell since her last romantic encounter, with double entendres aplenty.
    — Travis Pinson, Dallas Morning News, 11 Mar. 2026
  • And that double entendre wasn’t even intentional.
    — Alex Ross, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2025
  • With every motion, the intensity feels amplified and the burn becomes a double entendre.
    — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Characters speak in absurd double entendres no human being could leave unacknowledged.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Glaser said, in a double entendre about the federal immigration enforcement agency.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Keeping with the whimsical tone of Strapping’s product mix, Stewart chose the tongue-in-cheek name Licked, complete with its double entendre.
    — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 12 June 2026
  • Packed with flirtatious lyrics and double entendres, the single harkens back to the genre’s late ‘10s era, brimming with playful energy, seduction and allure.
    — Natalia Cano, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Carpenter’s suggestive travel neck pillow is the hook here — as a reminder, these ShopTV sketches are all about the naughty sight gags and double entendres.
    — Andy Hoglund, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Rebecca has to work with hot geologist / former fling / double entendre machine Charlie (Guy Burnet) on this project.
    — William Earl, Variety, 21 Dec. 2025
  • The coming quarters will determine whether this double entendre resolves in geopolitical success or macroeconomic regret.
    — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 30 Mar. 2026
  • As songwriters, the Ottavianos usually only needed a metaphor, a single beautiful image, or a fun double entendre to serve as narrative backbones.
    — Billie Bugara, Pitchfork, 26 Apr. 2026
  • The go-to resource for mapping out those periods is the app EskomSePush (the name of which is a cheeky double entendre in Afrikkans, betraying the public annoyance).
    — Abbey Hudetz, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is filled with double entendres, silly puns, and slapstick humor, but underneath it all lies a heartwarming story about the resilience of the human spirit and the power of friendship.
    — Andrew Walsh, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Apr. 2026
  • In true Swiftie fashion, social media has fast become inundated with fans combing through each lyric of the 12-track record for Easter eggs about Swift's life, double entendres, and hints at who certain tracks might be about.
    — Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The important thing is that The Muppet Show feels generally right — including in its demographic-spanning comic aim, with enough double entendre and insinuation for the grown-ups and mayhem for the kids.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Cinematographer Mátyás Erdély’s gaslamp wash makes the whole thing visually alluring, but the story up to this point is one of malformed double entendres, as Moulin and his cohorts react to more important plots unfolding elsewhere in the war.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 17 May 2026
  • Many of her jokes relied heavily on wordplay, like one about how the Rock might win a Globe because The Paper wasn’t nominated, but even sweaty double entendres like this landed well because Glaser moved on so quickly that there was no time for groans.
    — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Donut enthusiasts, don't despair—of course, Dunkin' capitalized on the double entendre of Munchkins, giving the donut brand's Old Fashioned Glazed Munchkins a makeover with the addition of pink and green sprinkles.
    — Maddie Topliff, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Nov. 2025

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