Example sentences for: rhyming

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

  • Another name for the sixpence was sprat, which probably came from a cross between this word and sprazianna, the Cockney rhyming slang for a sixpence ( tanner ).

  • But many people interested in such things have never heard of Gentleman's Magazine, Notes and Queries, The Edinburgh Review, Century Magazine , and others that provided intellectuals with a worldwide communications network on such diverse subjects as Shakespeariana, Danteiana, the origin of visiting cards, the etymologies of words like punch, noyade, and ha-ha , amendments and emendations to the Dictionary of National Biography , showers of frogs, pub names, usage and grammar, ancient customs, superstitions, law, dialecticisms, rhyming slang, and the longevity of horses.

  • Most of the expressions cited are totally unfamiliar to me, and I suggest that Mr. Day has played with a rhyming dictionary and dreamed many of them up for himself--harmless enough, but he ought not to pass them off as being in common usage.

  • Rhyming slang, of course, provides some of the best fun: it is a mystery to me how anyone who is unfamiliar with the origin of a given bit of rhyming slang can ever divine what it means.

  • I find Mary Imber's comments on rhyming slang, O. Abootty's short essay on Kerala Billingsgate, and Charles Lewis' neat exposition of English permutations [XXI, 4] particularly entertaining and informative.


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