Example Sentences

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Rhyming “clamped” with “claims” and “calm,” Hayes names Coleman, “Miss Calamity,” a mythic wordsmith “hurling hurt / Where the moon should be and stomping into our darkness calmly.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2018

Rhyming – almost – with Niagara, it manages to conjure up an image of something vital and potent.

From The Guardian • Dec. 2, 2017

“But poetry and rap are very similar. Rhyming poems were very common in old English poetry.”

From Washington Times • May 22, 2017

Rhyming public-health slogans that used to extol “Fewer kids, better life” have recently been removed.

From Economist • Jun. 5, 2014

Rhyming words took their form from children's books—the smallest pig in the litter, the hounds pursuing the fox, the flat-bottomed boats on the Cam by Grantchester meadow.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan