Example sentences for: rhyme

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

  • To avoid such asides, remember to Speak straight and sit crooked; or again, After the passing of incense there is no sitting , the message here echoed by a telling rhyme lost in translation.

  • The sensuality of "To Earthward" is acted out by its reaching, lingering, abrupt, or stretched sentences as they tease and cavort with rhyme and line ending.

  • 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 has a signature, a rhythm, a silence like your voice or fingerprint, the heartline of the graph the abstract of a mountain range or large waves coming in, repeated and repeated and repeated-- a child's idea of drawing, a child's obsessive dance or nursery rhyme yet years and years of listening to this child, who will not change but does.

  • 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.


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