Example Sentences
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“The struggles of these ordinary farming folk in rural China really rhymed with what was suddenly happening to farming folk in the U.S.A.,” says Peter Conn, emeritus professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 21, 2026
When they accepted the award, Montenegro named a dozen Venezuelan musicians in a rhymed speech and urged his countrymen to keep their heads up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2025
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
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
“There! How’s that? Now will you stay, since it rhymed and all?”
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
