couplet
Example Sentences
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The lyrics, which are serviceable but unremarkable—“Oh, I need you, yes, it’s true / I wouldn’t be anywhere without you” is a representative couplet—don’t offset the sleepiness.
Then the second line of the couplet turns it all upside down: “You give me a really good feeling all day long.”
From Washington Post
On the pier jutting out at 70th Street over the Hudson River, Dahlia Elsayed has affixed 16 brightly patterned banners in couplets along a row of lampposts.
From New York Times
Poets have joined the protests, too, their rhyming couplets providing battle cries for the movement.
From New York Times
And because of this, I know if I were a weeping man, the first couplet of this poem would bring me to tears.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
