Example Sentences

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It’s true that history doesn’t often repeat itself, but today, as the saying goes, it certainly is rhyming.

From Slate • Nov. 6, 2024

You have to be a student of warfare to understand where history is rhyming and repeating itself or where there's actually something new.

From Salon • May 10, 2022

“And what would you rather, me rapping about stuff that I’m not actually doing, or out there doing it? It’s not real. Rapping is rhyming and pretending. It’s a persona.”

From The Guardian • Oct. 2, 2019

Absolutely, and there is rhyming -- or a similar calling back to sounds of words -- in her work, which is best appreciated out loud.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2018

His life is rhyming like a song: it harks back to the old refrain.

From Hassan : the story of Hassan of Bagdad, and how he came to make the golden journey to Samarkand : a play in five acts by Flecker, James Elroy