play with words
play with language

She was given to playing with words in that way.

You could give him lessons on how to play with words.

Have you done anything in life but turn phrases and play with words?

How could I have forgotten that you play with words?

Every man is a multitude; but I play with words.

I can't remember things he said, but he'd play with words.

But it's all for the better, to play with words, my only toy.

And, generally, playing with words is dangerous in this audience.

I have never played with words again for the mere pleasure of the game.

I'm just playing with words anyway, what did you think I was doing?"

You know how a Bard likes to play with words.

The goal was to create a math land where kids could play with words and sentences.

Stuart saw and began to play with words because they gave him an interest that others might have considered insane.

For one thing, he was paid to play with words, one of his favorite things.

"It is not like you to play with words," he said, frowning.

The writers play with words, see if they'll fly, or float.

Don't play with words and think that'll change what happened".

But, hell, they were experts in playing with words.

We see how he loved to play with words."

Frankly, we know what is needed; this is just playing with words half the time.

"He appears to be playing with words, which could be dangerous."

Greene likes to play with words, among other things.

All of them played with words, twisting their meanings, hiding more than they revealed.

"The mechanism is the important part; the rest is just playing with words," he said in a recent interview.

Not only does he play the piano, but he plays with words and humor.

I'm playing with language right in front of your eyes!"

Listening to those guys really tapped into his love of playing with language.

But why shouldn't feminists play with language for political ends?

Most of the humour is situational, rather than playing with language.

Maybe she's playing with language and the reader's expectations.

Young children play with language, trying out sounds before they start experimenting with words.

We should play with language all the time.

Sometimes playing with language has touched an official nerve.

I was fascinated by the way Twain played with language and used regional dialects.

His reliance on irony and continuous play with language cast art in new molds.

But the idea that he might be playing with language - representing talk itself and the shifty character of words - is perfectly fine.

Does Yossarian's notion of "enemy" have any validity, or is he simply playing with language?

Playing with language is what delights Zippy the most."

Texting definitely isn't poetry in the traditional sense, but it's certainly a fun way to play with language.

The mocking and playing with language continues throughout; near the end of the play Arthur attacks similes in general:

The class, made up of 20 students mostly from developing countries, loved the zany concoctions, and he grew to love the chance to play with language.

Grahn also interestingly plays with language in her poem "The woman in three pieces".

Play with language.

His writings are about human existence keenly observed by a gutsy, romantic, sexually charged narrator who has at hand the ability to play with language.

In 2007 she founded the visual poetry website OtherCl/utter, a place to play with language and image.

It often involved playing with language, including humour involving such linguistic items as spoonerisms and double entendres.

Like Lewis Carroll, the author loves to play with language, and he comes up with plenty of choice words for the ethics-free recording industry.

Panto is full of the joy of playing with language - "What did Cinderella say when the chemist lost her photographs?

Mr. Mamet is playing with language, playing with literature and playing at being topical and philosophical.

Known for his complicated, diagrammatic play with language and Pop iconography, this young Brooklyn artist has lately turned to a kind of updated Magic Realism.