sonnet

Example Sentences

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When you can write a sonnet but can’t spell “strawberry,” you haven’t achieved intelligence.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 3, 2025

Underneath her outfit, “in a little bag next to her skin,” Vaill says, “she wore his little poem,” a love sonnet he’d written her during their courtship.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2025

That rude clatter is his equivalent of a sonnet.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2025

The sonnet sits in the miscellany alongside "politically charged" works from the 1640s - the decade of the English Civil War, fought between Royalists and Parliamentarians.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2025

The next day Rudy didn't turn in his sonnet.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez