Example sentences for: verses

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

  • Innumerable chapters and verses might be cited without a definitive answer and without convincing any one side of the debate that `almah unquestionably means, or does not mean, `virgin' in Isaiah 7:14.

  • The performance of rancheras is always dramatic and emotional, whether performed by men or women, and the audience can always empathize with the situations depicted in the verses.

  • Her new CD, An Italian Songbook , for instance, opens with one of dozens of settings Rossini made of two short verses by the 18 th -century poet Pietro Metastasio, "Mi lagnerò tacendo" ("I will complain silently").

  • Alabados are usually sung with religious fervor, and many are extremely long with an indefinite number of verses.

  • In the versions that abandoned the alliterative connection, it was possibly easier to give a satirical slant to the names, as with Mr. Sand the Grocer, probably alluding to the same suspicions of adulteration in the trade voiced in G.K. Chesterton's verses, The Song Against Grocers:


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