couplet

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Austria has the best opening couplet of the year: "I'm an ocean of love / And you're scared of water."

From BBC • May 16, 2025

Whether we are talking about 24 hours or a millennium, it is as chilling a rhymed couplet of stated political intent as one could envision.

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2024

On Sept. 6, 2014, when The Times asked for verse from readers, Koch weighed in with a long poem about grammar, which included this couplet:

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2023

The title, “Doha,” — the word means couplet — refers to a couplet by the 18th-century Urdu poet Mir Taqi Mir, about the delicacy of the universe.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2022

So goes a famous Pashtun tapa, a couplet my grandmother taught me.

From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai