stanzas

Example Sentences

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The books are episodic, composed of scenes that function like poetic stanzas that are linked as much by ideas and motifs as by narrative progression.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

And two others, “No Fear” and “Happy With You,” repeat lyrics like mantras as the music builds around them, filling up over 11 minutes of music with just two stanzas of words.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2025

They spoke on a recent day in their Berlin studio as they giggled and tripped over their own stanzas — which exploit a feature of German grammar that crams nouns together into strings of syllables.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2024

I gave my idea a form, a structure in which to be contained stanzas, line breaks that were cues.

From Salon • Jan. 15, 2023

Partway through the stanzas, he began to sob.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow