stanza

Example Sentences

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With every stanza, she settled into a musical rhythm that was satiric and bitingly honest.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

Crocker has changed his approach as he was now coming forward a bit more with his tight guard, and that was suiting Donovan, with the fight seemingly on a knife-edge heading into the final stanza.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2025

Mercifully for Edmonton, they have Leon Draisaitl, their German goal-scoring virtuoso and overtime reaper, who yet again found magic in the sudden-death stanza.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2025

WSU guard Myles Rice finished strong, posting nine points in the second stanza, but it wasn’t enough.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2024

I hummed a stanza of Areida’s favorite song, a sad one, about a farmer whose family is starving.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine