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Example sentences for: verse

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

They are written in the light, teary, lovely style of 19 th -century French song--the style that you can see in a little pastoral love poem of Hugo's, with the singer and pianist joined by Philippa Davies on flute, by clicking . The songs convey some of the orderliness and purity of Hugo's poetic imagination, his unflappable fluency, his verse structures varying with perfect control, as if every possible variation on rhythmic and melodic order lay easily within his grasp--as in, for instance, the opening bars that you can hear by clicking .
Written in a sixteen-syllable verse, it is usually printed in eight-syllable lines.
News Quiz participants are still encouraged to attempt this far more demanding verse form:
Earlier in this century, pansy became a derogatory epithet to describe an effete male, thereby cheapening forever lines like Shelley's noble image in Adonais (verse XXXIII):
In other news, I neglected to mention yesterday my single favorite sentence of the day, from a story in the Wall Street Journal about Jack-in-the-Box Corp.'s annual report: "The 1999 report opens with 14 pages of verse, narrated by fictional CEO 'Jack,' a sometimes-evil clown with a head that resembles a ping-pong ball."