alliteration

Example Sentences

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And as Herndon pointed out, “in time Lincoln’s style changed: he became more eloquent but with less gaudy ornamentation. He grew in oratorical power, dropping gradually the alliteration and rosy metaphor of youth.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

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

The dialogue snaps with playful alliteration, repetition and puns, even rhymes that punch up lines rather than overpower them.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2023

Reductio ad absurdum, by this token, would be classed as a figure of thought, whereas isocolon—a sequence of phrases the same length—or alliteration would be figures of speech.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith