Example sentences for: rhyme

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

  • Among the first group are many children's words-- Georgy-Porgy, Henny-Penny, Turkey-Lurkey, kitchy-kitchy, lippity-lippity, piggly-wiggly . Among the second are fuddy-duddy, funny-money, hoity-toity, hokey-pokey, namby-pamby, shilly-shally, silly-billy, ticky-tacky, wishy-washy , and the double cited above, willy-nilly . The power gained through rhyme and rhythm seems to be directed by the diminutive suffix toward favorable or unfavorable meanings.

  • The inhabitants of my own home county of Suffolk used to be noted for pronouncing the word wholly to rhyme with bully , just as Elizabeth I would have done, while everyone else rhymed it with holy .

  • Search for words that rhyme with a particular word, or get a list of all words;

  • In this phenomenon, the words rhyme.

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


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