verse

Example Sentences

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But he turns up the volume on his rich voice so high, and so consistently, that Shakespeare’s verse comes across like the sound of a jackhammer without an off switch.

From The Wall Street Journal

The gravity of the task may help me hold my tongue as the verse commands.

From Literature

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

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