How to Use couplet in a Sentence

couplet

noun

• And so that couplet turned into a great piece of advice.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 14 May 2021
• This is followed by a couplet of dip support knee tucks and pushups, and a final 10 cals on the bike.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 12 Sep. 2022
• Choose a line by Shakespeare and pair it with a line of your own to produce a funny rhyming couplet.
  — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
• Even though each couplet ends with the same word, the rhymes occur on every other line.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2022
• In this way, the first two episodes form a couplet that work more powerfully in tandem.
  — Peniel Joseph, CNN, 28 Jan. 2023
• The couplet is a useful key to unlocking the themes of her discography.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
• In my opinion, Bob Dylan, the bard, is the greatest spinner of rhyme and couplet since Shakespeare.
  — Jonathan Takiff, Philly.com, 17 Aug. 2017
• There’s something about Dounia’s cool couplets overtop a slow step-soul beat that feel crisp and salty.
  — Claire Dodson, Teen Vogue, 20 June 2019
• While Blueface wrecks couplets for kicks, Teejayx6 hacks meter for cash.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2019
• His style ranged from rhyming couplets to haiku to blank verse, and his interests were as vast as his gifts for expressing them.
  — Hillel Italie, chicagotribune.com, 4 Sep. 2017
• Bursting with rapped couplets, the score is a big part of the show’s power — and popularity.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2017
• Of course, there are also the lyrics: heartfelt couplets that exalt God and thank Him for being a constant presence in her life.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 18 Dec. 2023
• Indeed, around the same time, Auden wrote a famous haiku, and Frank Loesser a famous couplet, about the binding drink of the era, the Martini.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• To alter the rhyming couplets with extraneous emotion or a hint of free will would be a form of blasphemy.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
• Drake also finds time to take a mild swipe at Kanye West in a couplet suggesting that the long-running feud between them is not quite settled.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2023
• No soaring melody is coming to airlift you to safety, no witty couplet will lighten the mood.
  — David Rees, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
• There’s a couplet that is clearly about George W. Bush, and Prine noticed that some audience members were surprised by it.
  — Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2020
• Justin Paul: Finding those couplets was like a very fun, juicy experiment.
  — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2023
• Lehrer's work bounced the absurdities and paranoias of that period back at us, in rhymed couplets and a bouncy piano beat.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• By the time Ann finished the second couplet, the whole audience had leaned in, roused by allusion to eros and automatic weapons.
  — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
• Note the way slant and full rhyming couplets provide graceful rails for this poem’s difficult subject.
  — Carol Muske-Dukes, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2018
• Although Drake’s couplets were often comedic, Gates’ writing sought to capture the anger that was and is undoubtedly present in the lives of the enslaved and in their descendants.
  — Shantay Robinson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Mar. 2023
• Bimbo spat into his palm and tried rubbing the foul couplet away, but it was written in permanent marker.
  — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• Buffed and bare nails served as a jumping off point for couplets of vertical black lines pulled across each tip in deceptively simple guise.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2018
• Only in the second act, with the onerous exposition out of the way, do the couplets begin to give birth to satisfying story.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2018
• The elder was singing something in his dull cave, a soft, indecipherable couplet.
  — Vladimir Sorokin, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• Greig’s script, much of it written in rhyming couplets, is sometimes smug in its modernizing of classic motifs.
  — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• The couplet, and the razor-wire guitar riff around it, serve as an abrupt introduction into Lovato’s new era.
  — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 10 June 2022
• El Conejo Malo's lyrical steez is syrupy in sound and chopped and screwed in cadence, with hooks and couplets that are more melodious and bouncy than in-your-face or razor-sharp.
  — Marjua Estevez, Billboard, 27 Nov. 2017
• The Patriots and Jets are the first teams this season to complete their intra-divisional couplet.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024