assonant

Example Sentences

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Both are hyperdense, fluently assonant, working with car crashes of syllables and making them sound like regal skyscrapers.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2017

The word “sigh,” when sprinkled into a poem or a song, has a lovely, almost assonant quality.

From Salon • Jul. 14, 2014

A little compare-and-contrast chart, inspired by the assonant names of the conservative writer Dinesh D’Souza and the classic march composer John Philip Sousa, appeared over the weekend in The New York Times Magazine.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2014

It hires real journalists and does real reporting, and, when that happens, what viewers see cannot be entirely assonant with the wishes of its owners.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2014

The metre of this poem is correct, but the two attempted rhymes "deeper-meeker" and "supremely-sincerely" are technically no more than assonant sounds.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)