How to Use double entendre in a Sentence

double entendre

noun
  • The song's title is a double entendre.
  • Most of her work came with double entendres that were sharp as swords and could quickly be turned on their heads.
    — Koko Ntuen, Teen Vogue, 17 Aug. 2018
  • The bar's party atmosphere and drinks menu ripe with double entendre are hard to miss.
    — Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Not content with a mere double entendre, Elon Musk hits at least three.
    — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 7 July 2020
  • Midland is not alone in its reverence for double entendres and crooked lines.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Your biggest weapon as a battle rapper is a double entendre, word scheme, metaphors.
    — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Taylor does love a double entendre, after all.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Maybe, but in that wizarding world, there’s far more potential for double entendres and kinky puns.
    — John Wenzel, The Know, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Cantonese is supple, playful, full of puns and double entendres.
    — Yi-Ling Liu, Harper's Magazine, 31 Aug. 2019
  • As the film reaches its ending, the double entendre of the title reveals itself.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2025
  • There was almost a double entendre, like an S&M meaning that could be read into all of the lyrics.
    — Brittany Vincent, Billboard, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The band released a video announcement Tuesday that is a one-note double entendre.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Others pointed out that the show has always been a little risqué, relying on double entendres since its start decades ago.
    — Megan Friedman, Country Living, 15 Aug. 2018
  • Look beyond Dana Osborne’s clever costumes and double entendres of all kinds abound.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2019
  • There's probably a few double entendres with Blood of My Blood.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 21 May 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
  • Any of the show’s songs referencing orgasms rely on double entendres and other word play.
    — Whitney Friedlander, Marie Claire, 1 Mar. 2019
  • There will be a broken dam’s worth of literary and pop-cultural references along with a steady flow of double entendres.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • Each time that the pair meets up, their conversation is shrouded in innuendo and double entendre.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 31 Jan. 2020
  • The queue for the queue (yes, there was one) was dubbed QEII, a playful double entendre for the line and the queen.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
  • There’s an obvious camp quotient, as audiences chuckle at lines that sound like double entendres today.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 June 2023
  • 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
  • Take a Fuddruckers ad from the early 1980s that is rife with double entendres.
    — Maria Cramer, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2020
  • And that double entendre wasn’t even intentional.
    — Alex Ross, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2025
  • For Cannon, who added three children to his already full crew of five in 2021, the cocktail was a double entendre.
    — Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 9 June 2022
  • In such a prey on words, rare, medium, and well done are double entendres, so that six meanings are packed into the space ordinarily occupied by just three.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Roster gyrates up a storm as Maurice wiggles his way back into the picture, indulging in double entendres astride the baby grand.
    — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
  • So there's an interesting kind of double entendre in her reaction to the environment.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 24 Jan. 2025
  • With every motion, the intensity feels amplified and the burn becomes a double entendre.
    — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2025

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