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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

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

“When is love not love?” it wonders, across an enjambed line.

From Washington Post • Jul. 4, 2018

If so, he must have been one of the first of English poets to adopt the very loose enjambed decasyllabic couplet in which his work, like that of Marmion and still more Chamberlayne, is written.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George