Example sentences for: rhyme

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  • The same is true for Honey's assumptions about Buddha , which he implies is universally pronounced in AE with the vowel of boot ; about Moscow , the second syllable of which is not always rhymed in AE with cow ; about Nepal , which is pronounced identically to the British (RP) way by many AE speakers; and about Vietnam , the -nam of which, contrary to the author's information, is pronounced by many AE speakers to rhyme with dam , not palm . As for Pakistan , Americans tend to give both a sounds the same quality, whether they rhyme them with that in father or in man . On the other hand, the pronunciation of Afghanistan in Britain follows either the pattern of Pakistan , which has the a of man in the first syllable and that of father in the last, or, as in America, is heard with the a of man in both positions.

  • The rhyme might not have been a very good one, but the chant went up nonetheless--Immigrant, Jimmy-grant, Pommy-grant--originally expressing a prejudice against assisted immigration of any sort, but later, simply because of the numbers involved, becoming focused on the British, and later still on the English.

  • "It would be unfair to call this a nursery rhyme; it was childish rather than childlike," writes Donald Clarke in The Rise and Fall of Popular Music . "Nobody knows how many music fans stopped listening to the radio after hearing 'Doggie In The Window' too many times."

  • Is it possible to write in rhyme and meter more gracefully and plainly than Ben Jonson (1573-1637) does in "His Excuse for Loving"?

  • In this line, the vowels almost rhyme: "ee ah, ee aw, eh ee, yuh oh, eh ee."


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