Example sentences for: haiku

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

  • Headline Haiku

  • While other writers struggled with Paz's definition of the Mexican condition, he wrote about Chinese calligraphy, Japanese haiku, the Marquis de Sade ("an enemy of love," yet paradoxically, a generous man), or obstacles to democracy in India (he always thought there were useful parallels between Mexico's and India's struggles to set up a legitimate government).

  • Thus, we have a verse form like haiku, in which the totality of the poem is condensed into only seventeen syllables.

  • The Majic Bus is full of passages like this: "How could I be a great bop wanderer, a mystic in search of ecstasy, a hobo scribbler of haiku and jazz poems, somehow discovering, in Kerouacian terms, how to 'dig' life in the divine world to the fullest?"

  • Mike Madden's Headline Haiku


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