Example sentences for: sonnets

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

  • For Rothko, too, there were the years of apprenticeship, the hard-won discovery of a classic but ultimately restrictive format (Rothko's stacked rectangles are not unlike Lowell's sonnets and John Berryman's "dream songs"), the succession of wives, the acclaim, and the descent into alcohol, paranoia, depression, and suicide.

  • It's as if she's writing a sequence of sonnets.

  • A Shakespearean Garden displays the flowers mentioned by the Bard in his sonnets and plays.

  • In the Shawnian scheme of things, being or not being an intellectual would appear to be an issue only for men, as if the only thing that kept them from humping everything like craven dogs was a fondness for sonnets.

  • When he wasn't out cavorting with Gwyneth Paltrow, William Shakespeare wrote some sonnets that turn out to be apt commentary on the tabloids continuing examination of the pain and promise of celebrity love.


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