For instance: "The robber named Bob, bolted to the exit with his mask falling off, yelling at the other robbers to abandon the robbery made it clear that the jig was up."
Did he bolt for the exit as in running or did he get detained and bolted to the exit? Not the greatest example but that would be the challenge. Here are other words you might try to make a dual meaning sentence out of:
Clip: To fasten or to cut Consult: To offer advice or to obtain it Custom: A common practice or a special treatment Dust: To sprinkle over particles or to remove them Fast: Quick or stuck or made secure Finished: Completed or destroyed Handicap: An advantage provided to ensure equality or a disadvantage that prevents equal achievement Hold up: To support or to impede Model: An exemplar or a copy Out: Visible as with stars showing in the sky, or invisible, in reference to lights Overlook: To supervise or to neglect Oversight: Monitoring or failing to oversee Peer: A person of the nobility or an equal Quantum: Significantly large (as in leap) or a minuscule part Quite: Rather (as a qualifying modifier) or completely Rock: An immobile mass of stone or a shaking or unsettling movement or action Sanction: To approve or to boycott Scan: To peruse or to glance Screen: To present as in film or to conceal as in high hedges! Seed: To sow seeds or to shed them as in (floral) gone to seed Skin: To cover or to remove Splice: To join or to separate Strike: To hit or to miss in an attempt to hit Throw out: To dispose of or to present for consideration Trim: To decorate or to remove excess from Trip: A journey or a stumble Variety: A particular type or many types Wind up: To end or to start up
To be clear, this would basically be a puzzle challenge. Using the above words create a dual, contrary meaning sentence with identical wording.
ADDENDUM: Ideal usage of this is to make stories that can be innocent or dirty.-- doctorremulac3, Apr 16 2022 This has been a matter of life and death. https://en.m.wikipe...wounding%20another. [pertinax, Apr 16 2022] "Bless your heart" https://en.wikipedi...ki/Bless_your_heart [doctorremulac3, Apr 17 2022] Sound bites https://www.thought...mmunication-1691978are getting... [4and20, Apr 17 2022] I'd take a Lear jet to see the Tatas in India.-- 4and20, Apr 16 2022 There you go!
And could be dirty or clean too. Double points. Adding that to the description.
Also reminded of back when I was a teenager and we'd buy old classic cars, get them showroom ready and resell them. (THIS story is true) So this guy's selling an old Chrysler Imperial Crown Coupe, but the fuel pump is having issues. So he asks his wife Katy to pump the gas pedal while he's under the hood trying to see if something's stuck. So while she's turning over the engine it's kind of loud so he has to yell: (in a German accent, don't know why that made it funner but it did) "PUMP IT KATY, PUMP IT!" So after Katy pumped it a while and it started he explained "Well, she pumped it and it came." Sure he was confused at all the resultant laughter.
Come to think of it, English being his second language would be kind of important to the story. And actually he said "pamped" it, Arnold Schwarzenegger style.-- doctorremulac3, Apr 16 2022 (+)... I wonder if enough sound bites exist to simulate Leslie Nielsons' voice for narration.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Apr 16 2022 This is a wind up.-- pocmloc, Apr 16 2022 "Bless your heart."-- RayfordSteele, Apr 16 2022 That would be the way southern ladies use that expression.
For those unfamiliar, it's the polite southern way of saying "This person is an idiot.". "Did you hear about Clara losing all her money at the race track? Bless her heart."-- doctorremulac3, Apr 17 2022 Some thoughts on sound bites and bytes. The average length of a sound bite has been falling dramatically [link]. This appears to have happened where the bite met the byte. A byte of audio would only be measurable in milliseconds, though now we at least have the Megabytes to store longer.-- 4and20, Apr 17 2022 //Bless her heart//
For extra condescending scorn, should that be required, one may bless someone's little cotton socks.-- pertinax, Apr 18 2022 I like that. Sounds innocent enough but clearly insulting. Compusults are a thing I think I've heard. The cliche would be a woman being catty to another by saying something like "I think it's awesome how brave you are to wear that dress with your figure.".-- doctorremulac3, Apr 18 2022 This is encountered a lot with visualizing technological processes. Much of it is very opaque, but as everyone knows it must be more transparent!
Or so say the kids, who are wicked sick.-- mylodon, Apr 19 2022 random, halfbakery