rhyme
noun
identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.
rhymed
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past participleof rhyme.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof rhyme.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
rhymenounidentity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.
Example Sentences
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There, one song evoked a musical conception he had imagined but never achieved—“it dealt with space, and a logic that rhymed and was almost obtuse,” Mr. Batiste once told me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
In 2002, he even made fun of the situation with the self-deprecating I Will Talk And Hollywood Will Listen, in which the title rhymed with the lyric "Mr Spielberg look just what you're missing".
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2024
“But I let that go during ‘Welcome Mat’ — I didn’t even care if things rhymed — and that gave me so much more of a canvas to work with.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2024
Whether we are talking about 24 hours or a millennium, it is as chilling a rhymed couplet of stated political intent as one could envision.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024
Good thing Boo answered, because the only thing Aru could think of that rhymed with art was fart, and that’s not a word you want to throw around when you’re talking to a legendary sage-poet.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
