sonnet

Example Sentences

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Whether the job was to jump on a stolen velocipede, win over a band of pirates, visibilize invisible ink, pen a sonnet, or don a disguise, Simon Harley-Dickinson was the man for it.

From Literature

The book of Shakespeare’s sonnets had been a gift from her to Alexander at Christmas.

From Literature

Bard did get a little gooey at one point when asked to write a Shakespearean sonnet and responded seductively in one of the three drafts that it quickly created.

From Washington Times

When May asked it to write a specific kind of sonnet—he requested a form used by Italian poet Petrarch—the model, unfamiliar with that poetic setup, defaulted to the sonnet form preferred by Shakespeare.

From Scientific American

When I showed my friends the sonnet by ChatGPT, they called it “soulless and barren.”

From Washington Post