Example Sentences

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Oxford, whose crews have failed to win since 1923, was splashing the water unrhythmically, losing distance.

From Time Magazine Archive

The unrhythmically wallowing rollers were banging her bows unmercifully and throwing water aboard at a rate that I feared would swamp her very quickly if she continued to head into them.

From Down the Yellowstone by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)

A sulphurous, copperly glare streaming through cast a weird unearthly sheen on the unrhythmically lapping wavelets of the river.

From Down the Yellowstone by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)

If a commonplace thought, rhythmically adorned, may sometimes be poetry, most certainly a profound idea ecstatically but unrhythmically expressed is poetry.

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert