couplet

Example Sentences

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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

So fullness of that scene did have to be compressed down to that little couplet.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2024

As she read the rhyming couplet inscribed in a large clay jar made before the Civil War, the 84-year-old Northeast D.C. resident could feel pain and loneliness in the anguished voice of her enslaved ancestor.

From Washington Post • Apr. 2, 2023

But “Lip Service” by Costello and the Attractions has the all-time classic couplet: “When did you become so choosy? Don’t act like you’re above me, just look at your shoes.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2023

I had completely forgotten that after the wedding ceremony Arabella and the medical prince link arms and, speaking in unison, step forward to address to the audience a final couplet.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan