stanzas
Example Sentences
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She spends three stanzas working herself up to expressing her pain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
In his analysis of “Moving Towards Home,” Miller highlights stanzas such as:
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025
When California’s new poet laureate, Lee Herrick, recited “My California,” his best-known work, from the poetry stage, the stanzas had a hypnotic effect on the throngs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2023
Like many of her peers, she favors objects that bear the marks of use, as if, having inherited a sorely used world, she’s making stanzas from its leftovers.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2023
Words to a song, “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag,” formed into stanzas.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
