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
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
Killjoy style manuals tell writers to avoid alliteration, but good prose is enlivened with moments of poetry, like this line with its pleasing meter and its impish pairing of marital and medical.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
