Example sentences for: verses

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

  • 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:

  • Two of these nicknames developed notorious associations: Oliver Cromwell was known as Iron Noll , and the children's verses of Ambrose Philips ensured the everlasting fame of his nickname, Namby Pamby .

  • 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.

  • It was plundered by everybody, especially Bob Dylan, who swiped, alluded, and rewrote, so much in the spirit of the original works, among which lines and verses migrate freely, that he forcefully inserted himself into the tradition.

  • Verses from the Koran and the name of the 14th-century monarch Yusuf I are woven into the design.


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