Example sentences for: rhyming

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

  • Even the rhyming couplets stand closer to Hugo's spirit than you might imagine.

  • Mo rhyming with no certainly makes the slogan easy to remember.

  • Bexley Heath, Hounslow Heath, and Hampstead Heath are all rhyming slang for `teeth,' with the last often shortened to just Hampsteads . I suppose it has to be in your blood.

  • Another rhyming reduplication, mumbo jumbo, is probably borrowed from a word in African Mandingo: Mama Dyumbo was a deity who helped husbands to bewilder wives whom they suspected of talking too much.

  • It may not come as much of a revelation to Professor Honey to learn that even I, a native speaker of AE, often have to ask whether an American speaker meant to say can or can't when the word receives any emphasis; but in normal, unstressed speech the former is usually reduced to `k'n' while the latter is of longer duration, even, than that of the noun can . To be sure, the RP practice of rhyming can with man and the a of can't with that of father does neaten things up a bit.


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