Example Sentences

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Rhyming in heroic couplets, the poem takes its inspiration from Alexander Pope’s 18th-century mock-heroic work “The Dunciad,” which depicts journalists worshiping the goddess “Boredom.”

From Washington Times • Oct. 1, 2021

Rhyming public-health slogans that used to extol “Fewer kids, better life” have recently been removed.

From Economist • Jun. 5, 2014

Rhyming "Alexander McQueen thing" with "this is a Queens thing" is uninspired at best.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2014

Rhyming slang is the braggadocio of the cockney, a flowering of the wit and theatre of street trading, while pies and mash and jellied eels are the cuisine of choice.

From The Guardian • Jun. 26, 2012

Rhyming words took their form from children's books—the smallest pig in the litter, the hounds pursuing the fox, the flat-bottomed boats on the Cam by Grantchester meadow.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan