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
He named the brand Merch Motel because he found the phrase descriptive and liked its alliteration.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 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
The Monday thing wasn’t just alliteration, either, but was instead built on research: Considered the beginning of the week in the U.S.,
From Salon • Nov. 7, 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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
