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Example sentences for: rhyme
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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 !).