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

“The Institute,” a 2019 novel by Stephen King, Maine’s Master of the Macabre — or horror, I just said macabre for the alliteration — has become a miniseries with some major additions and minor emendations.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 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

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

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