RHYME in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for RHYME, such as:

1. Let's break the rhythm and forget the rhyme.
2. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look.
3. All my fastidiousness would suddenly, for no rhyme or reason, vanish.
4. The page is a young man of color who raps in crushingly artless rhymes.
5. Miss La Trobe watched them sink down peacefully into the nursery rhyme.

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 Meanings and Examples of RHYME
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rhyme
 n.  a word that has the same last sound as another word
 n.  a short poem, especially for young children
Classic Sentence:
1  But somewhere, this cloud, this crust, this doubt, this dust--She waited for a rhyme, it failed her; but somewhere surely one sun would shine and all, without a doubt, would be clear.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
2  Miss La Trobe watched them sink down peacefully into the nursery rhyme.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
3  Let's break the rhythm and forget the rhyme.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
4  All my fastidiousness would suddenly, for no rhyme or reason, vanish.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
5  They were in a hurry enough to start us, and now here we stand in the middle of a field without rhyme or reason.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIV
6  He said she would slap down a line, and if she couldn't find anything to rhyme with it would just scratch it out and slap down another one, and go ahead.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII.
7  The rose-like glow sent forth its rays of rhyme; ways, days, blaze, praise, raise.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  WE WERE SINGING rhymes to tease Antonia while she was beating up one of Charley's favourite cakes in her big mixing-bowl.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
9  The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
Example Sentence:
1  Here are a couple of verses written in cryptic rhyme from some of my currently published books.
2  Government money was given out to some people and not to others, apparently without rhyme or reason.
3  The page is a young man of color who raps in crushingly artless rhymes.