Example sentences for: couplets

How can you use “couplets” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • ," a pop adaptation of the waltz that was a hit in the '50s for Della Reese [LINK TO AUDIO CLIP]and which contains one of the laziest filler couplets in lyric-writing history:

  • In couplets and the "beheaded" (first syllable omitted) four-foot iambic line, familiar from "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," he speaks his mind directly and eloquently about feeling love ardently when no longer a youth.

  • Sutton quotes liberally from the "flood" of domestic conduct books of the period, including some rhymed couplets from the wildly popular manual of Jacob Cats, such as (in my translation): "A man obeys the law of the land; a woman obeys the will of her man."

  • The instruments are brought together in mantinada songs with rhyming couplets of lyrics.

  • Even the rhyming couplets stand closer to Hugo's spirit than you might imagine.


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