rhyme

Example Sentences

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Marilyn Hacker’s sonnet, an excerpt from a sequence, plays with negation: She records all the things she didn’t do in rhyme that surges with life, even when it concludes with regret.

From Washington Post

Specifically, the planet in question is named Aldana, where the residents speak entirely in rhyme, per Issue #9 of Captain Marvel.

From Salon

Mary Robinson, in her 1991 inaugural address as Ireland’s president, hoped for an era in Europe “where old wounds can be healed, a time when, in the words of Seamus Heaney, ‘hope and history rhyme.’”

From Seattle Times

The tug’s tilting chimney rhymes with the lean of the lamppost, and both are counteracted by the scattered silhouettes of women and children leaning against the iron-paling fence.

From Washington Post

Of course, if you’re asking 12-year-olds to sing part of “Ten Little Indians,” a 19th-century nursery rhyme that includes disturbing lyrics involving the death of Native Americans, you need to explain why.

From New York Times