Example sentences for: rhyming

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

  • His or her duties include converting all public remarks by the speaker of the House into iambic pentameter (rhyming optional); composing ribald limericks about any lawsuits filed against the president for sexual harassment; and debating the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about whether a poem is lovely as a tree.

  • None of these groups has contributed to rhyming slang.

  • This outdated prison slang is used almost nostalgically, in the same way that some people still employ Cockney rhyming slag (which was once itself an anti-language).

  • 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.

  • As a nonspecialist, simply a lover of words, an amateur precisianist and a crossword addict--alas, I find yours too easy--I am spurred to take issue with Tony Day [XX,4,21] on the subject of rhyming slang.


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