sonnet
Example Sentences
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When you can write a sonnet but can’t spell “strawberry,” you haven’t achieved intelligence.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 3, 2025
Underneath her outfit, “in a little bag next to her skin,” Vaill says, “she wore his little poem,” a love sonnet he’d written her during their courtship.
From Slate • Oct. 21, 2025
Dr Veronese found the sonnet featured in a miscellany - a type of manuscript which contains a selection of texts from different authors on various subjects - stored at the Bodleian Library.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2025
It was a poetic ending for the man who named his company after a 19th-century sonnet about arrogance, hubris and pride laid low.
From Salon • Sep. 14, 2024
Perhaps in his presence she imagined herself young and beautiful again, the sonnet lady desired by a man who could not have her.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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