couplet

Example Sentences

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But I think that couplet is really powerful and it did what we wanted it to do.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2024

On Sept. 6, 2014, when The Times asked for verse from readers, Koch weighed in with a long poem about grammar, which included this couplet:

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2023

As she read the rhyming couplet inscribed in a large clay jar made before the Civil War, the 84-year-old Northeast D.C. resident could feel pain and loneliness in the anguished voice of her enslaved ancestor.

From Washington Post • Apr. 2, 2023

The ending, like a perfect rhyming couplet, is both unexpected and inevitable: It is, of course, the chosen card.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2023

I had completely forgotten that after the wedding ceremony Arabella and the medical prince link arms and, speaking in unison, step forward to address to the audience a final couplet.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan