Zeugma Examples

• "And all the people saw the thundering, and the lightning, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off." From the Bible.
• "You held your breath and the door for me."
• He lost his coat and his temper.
• She opened the door and her heart to the orphan.
• She exhausted both her audience and her repertoire, by Anonymous.
• To wage war and peace.
• "You held your breath and the door for me."
• The addict kicked the habit and then the bucket.
• "Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey,
  Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes tea"
• "Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law,
  Or some frail China-jar receive a flaw,
  Or stain her honour, or her new brocade." From Rape of the Lock, written by Alexander Pope.
• "Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave."
• "She looked at the object with suspicion and a magnifying glass." By Charles Dickens.
• "He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men."
• "You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit."
• "Kill the boys and the luggage!"
• "She arrived in a taxi and a flaming rage."
• ". . . losing her heart or her necklace at the ball." By Alexander Pope.
• "I fancy you were gone down to cultivate matrimony and your estate in the country", by Goldsmith.
• "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears." By William Shakespeare.
• "The theme of the Egg Hunt is 'learning is delightful and delicious'--as, by the way, am I."
• "You held your breath and the door for me."
• It certainly wouldn't break anyone's heart or bank to give some time to charity.
• Fear makes us cautious, resentful and sometimes dangerous.

• The farmers in the valley grew potatoes, peanuts, and bored.
• It was curtains for him and the window.
• Her hopes drowned with it her belief in idealism, trust in heaven, certainty in goodness and purity of heart.
• She bought the 1994 election, an antique cereal bowl, and the farm.
• The journalists covered the assassination and up the conspiracy.
• I saw there the laughter, the great gaiety, the very picture of joy, the epitome of happiness.
• She carried a sack of groceries, a child, and on.
• He drowned his sorrows and his cat, but the relief was only temporary; it was only a matter of time before it took a more sophisticated victim to quell his disturbances.
• He held a high rank and an old notepad.
• He lost his coat and his temper.
• My family is happy, well fed and kind to each other.
• It was fearful how he was neither an alien, nor a human walking on two legs, neither a creepy insect, nor a handsome apparition.
• He bit the bullet, his hand, and the dust.
• Elle wore a pink hat and a beatific smile.
• She killed time and the mailman.
• She came up through the ranks, over last night, repeatedly, and to realize the error of her ways.
• She jumped his bones and over the dog.
• Fix the problem and not the blame.
• In the morning, happy he was, and in the evening and dark night too.
• His boat and his dreams sank.
• She aroused suspicion and men.
• I am leaving for greener pastures and 10 days.
• Time makes older adults wiser and younger adults less wise.
• She was upstairs, and her children downstairs.
• Across the road, the field and the park we ran.
• He screwed up the assignment and over his partner.
• Afraid and unhappy, the boy stood alone in the world.
• On his fishing trip, he caught eight trout and a cold.
• He threw a bomb and killed soldiers, maimed children, injured women and blinded men.
• She lowered her standards by raising her glass, her courage, her eyes and his hopes.

• He rang the bell and up her purchases.
• She entered the data and his room.
• He bought her story and a beer.
• He flew the coop and the kite.
• She gathered her wits and her knitting.
• He fished for compliments and trout.
• He fell back on his sword and his position of power.
• He milked the situation and the cow.
• She stayed his execution and at the hotel.
• He played for keeps and money.