doggerel

Example Sentences

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For 15 years, he wrote a long-form narrative every three weeks for the New Yorker; he’s also written shorter reported pieces, comic sketches and doggerel for the Nation, Time and elsewhere.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2024

You can’t write doggerel for Burt Bacharach songs.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

“All hail, sage lady, whom a grateful isle hath blest,” says a photographer to Elizabeth at the end of Season 1, aptly quoting the patriotic doggerel of Wordsworth’s “Ecclesiastical Sonnets.”

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2019

Mac’s ability to elevate doggerel to verse—and to a mirror of his protagonist’s essence—is no small thing: it is the work of a real writer expressing depths in a popular form.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 29, 2019

As she passed the mantelpiece, she looked up at the framed doggerel.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie