sonnet

Example Sentences

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Produced on a reported budget of $25 million, it earned $289 million globally, more than enough for the filmmakers to sing a sweet sonnet.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

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

It was a reference to a sonnet by Percy Bysse Shelley: Ozymandias, King of Kings.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2024

She hadn’t finished the sonnet but she had finished Mack.

From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers