caesura

Example Sentences

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Alone on the sea for weeks, Fox has a moment of caesura in his own life, and he finds the experience both rewarding and frightening.

From Slate • Dec. 3, 2019

That is a semicolon from the heavens, you know, it’s like the most amazing caesura, to say these two things that are simultaneous and true.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 20, 2019

For a musical about a war — or more precisely, a caesura between hostilities — “All Is Calm” is a staunchly apolitical and warily genteel work.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2018

It’s an incredibly active act of reading: you must craft some portion of the narrative yourself, filling in the caesura.

From The Verge • Aug. 3, 2017

The differences in the hexameters of the Latin poets were not so remarkable, but even these varied, in various epochs, their treatment of the separate feet, and the position of the caesura.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various