Example sentences for: rhyme

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

  • Occasionally, rhyme and reason happily coincide, as in skin-and-blister = sister, but for true metaphors there must be some sense connexion, otherwise the substitute word or phrase is merely used randomly, or like a secret code.

  • 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.

  • Though it is no Iliad , all young spellers know the rhyme mnemonic

  • All this is called devolution, to rhyme with "evolution" (and not to rhyme with "revolution").

  • Imagine my shame when I heard a TV announcer declare that one should rhyme Halley with Sally, rally , and tally (as in Ho !).


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