stanzas
Example Sentences
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The books are episodic, composed of scenes that function like poetic stanzas that are linked as much by ideas and motifs as by narrative progression.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
In his analysis of “Moving Towards Home,” Miller highlights stanzas such as:
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025
They spoke on a recent day in their Berlin studio as they giggled and tripped over their own stanzas — which exploit a feature of German grammar that crams nouns together into strings of syllables.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2024
He reads from a stack of loose papers, his hands moving in time with the stanzas he spits like rap bars.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024
They inquired after her studies and she was asked to recite a few stanzas from “The Daffodils.”
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
