slant rhyme

Example Sentences

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“Olive onion pigeon”: Those three trochees, with the repetition of O’s and N’s and the slant rhyme of “onion” and “pigeon,” suggest that I was attuned to the music of language.

From New York Times

The sprightly meter of the text abounds with exact rhymes and slant rhymes, as well as playful consonance, assonance and alliteration, carrying along the play’s stream-of-consciousness-styled progression of ideas.

From New York Times

“It’s not that our childhoods and careers are the same, but they have a slant rhyme to them,” Sara said.

From Washington Post

If you’ve just learned about slant rhyme, you could read poems that exhibit it.

From Time

“I never got the kind of accolades Roach is getting,” he said, and he reprised some of the slant rhymes he had been reciting for weeks: “He’s a joke / Blowing smoke / With no hope.”

From The New Yorker