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She tackled thorny subjects — war, family, race, death, sex, aging, guilt, love, estrangement, legacy, abortion, homelessness, lynchings in the South, environmental catastrophe — with diamond-sharp honesty and lyrical enjambed lines.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 1, 2024

Under the direction of Adam Brace, Reich flits seamlessly between bits, with punch lines cleverly enjambed at the ends of his sentences.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2023

I read it and find myself getting jammed rather than enjambed.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2020

Bhatnagar built a new program to comb through this corpus and write sonnets with enjambed lines—that is, phrases that flow over naturally from one line to the next:

From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2020

Blank verse was tabooed as too prose-like; so, too, were the enjambed rhymes.

From Palamon and Arcite by Dryden, John