alliteration

Example Sentences

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Churchill’s use of alliteration, onomatopoeia and other devices served him as tools to fix “on paper the sound of the human voice,” Mr. Stiles writes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

One for alliteration fans - could Broadway Boy follow Mon Mome, Party Politics and Red Rum as a nifty-sounding National winner for trainer, who has triumphed twice before?

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2025

And, yes, there were omissions, which, for the sake of alliteration and search engine optimization, we’ll call “snubs.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2024

It’s easy enough to write off the twee alliteration of the three J-named exes as a kind of light rhyme or fairy-tale resonance.

From New York Times • May 20, 2024

And even where something appears merely decorative—a run of alliteration or a mellifluously turned sentence—it serves to commend the speech more easily to memory, and to give pleasure to the audience.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith