verse
Example Sentences
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The gravity of the task may help me hold my tongue as the verse commands.
From Literature
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And then everybody got the idea, and it became a sort of song with a verse of “Please, Ms. Washington” and a chorus of “Please, please, please.”
From Literature
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No one ever asks the politicians who like to play or reference “Born In The USA” about that verse.
From Salon
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway’ has a cross-fingered intro on the keyboards, and this little run before the first verse comes in.
From Los Angeles Times
By the time Western audiences discovered him - via a guest verse on Cardi B's 2018 hit I Like It - Bad Bunny had already racked up 16 Top 40 hits on the US Latin charts.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.