Example sentences for: rhyme

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

  • 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 sudden improvement in scansion and rhyme in American poetry: These welcome developments can have only two possible explanations.

  • 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.

  • All the more remarkable, then, that the article on Manet has a title that exactly matches Fry's in rhythm, rhyme, and grammar, the match extending to the curious use of lady to denote in the one a medieval wench thought to be a witch and in the other a French nude of dubious virtue.

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


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