Example sentences for: rhyming

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

  • 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.

  • As well as the nonce , the grass informer is also in danger, such danger being especially acute if the offender is dragged into a pad (a.k.a. peter cell) out of sight and hearing of the kangas (short for kangaroo , rhyming slang for screw ).

  • But some of our own anti-battle cries have been a little lazy, perhaps because of the too-easy rhyming of "four" and "war"--as in "one, two, three, four/ we don't want your stinking ..."

  • Aside from the linguistic challenges they pose, these ancient artificial, noncewords, with their sonorous, cantillating, rhyming, and rhythmical variations on phonetic themes, have intrigued and fascinated scholars who try to divine the rules governing their formation.

  • To kevork someone is to assist him in the commission of suicide--an eponym derived proximately, of course, from the work of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, but made possible by the prior success of the rhyming verb to bork (from the name Robert Bork, and meaning to use every means possible to sabotage a nominee to high office).


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