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 older examples among them are written in batches of lines, varying from one to several score, each of which derives unity from an assonant vowel-rhyme, and known as laisses or tirades.

From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis