How to Use rhyme in a Sentence

rhyme

1 of 2 noun

• They're learning about meter and rhyme.
• And the best idea someone could come up with was a rhyme for the Jets and Mets?
  — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
• In terms of shoes, all rhyme and reason flies out the door.
  — Christian Allair, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2021
• The song that’s probably the most slurred is a pure rhyme.
  — Jim Asker, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2022
• The older boy would sing a little rhyme about a dog and a hunter in the woods.
  — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
• Or so the rhyme goes—but life in the 21st century may force a change of plan.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2023
• One thing people don’t know is that Dirty did not write a lot of rhymes.
  — Dante Ross, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
• The more common refrain was a three-word rhyme not fit for print.
  — The Arizona Republic, 12 Feb. 2023
• There’s lots of fun to be had, in a show that rhymes nonplussed with calcu-lust.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
• The beat stopped for a second, and then resumed, so that Fivio could think of the next rhyme.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
• Saahil: rhymes with sawmill, or at least that gets you 90 percent there.
  — Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 17 July 2023
• The MCs got in on it, speaking their own clever rhymes and wordplay over it.
  — Deepti Hajela, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2023
• It’s become a scourge, the cause of which seems to defy both rhyme and reason.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• Why were rhymes about crimes allowed in one case and denied in the other?
  — Bill Hochberg, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• But the Dune: Part Two star disagreed because his middle name did not add to the rhyme.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2024
• The narration is written in rhyme, meant to evoke rap lyrics.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 July 2022
• There’ll be hits, and there’ll be just rhymes and beats happening.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 27 Apr. 2023
• For the past 40 or so, rhyme has dominated our shared culture in the form of rap lyrics.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2022
• Their curving bows combine to create a rhyme with the serpentine flick of the bull’s tail.
  — Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
• And that’s going to rhyme, as Mark Twin supposedly said, with the present.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2021
• The rhyme is a reminder for people to respect hip-hop culture.
  — Julie Walker, Freep.com, 7 Aug. 2021
• And that meant unraveling the rhymes and coming up with new ones.
  — Barbra Streisand, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2023
• Numbers scribbled in a ledger become a visual rhyme with images of crowds in the streets.
  — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2020
• The market didn’t have a tone nor tenor/rhyme nor reason for trading action.
  — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 3 June 2021
• Herard has attempted to buy back both The Big Picture and the rhyme books with his own money.
  — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2021
• Despite the lessons learned in that rhyme, Peter tries to put her back together again.
  — Alice Burton, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2021
• April — as the rhyme goes — is supposed to bring showers, followed by May flowers.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 15 Apr. 2021
• On many days, when hope and history do not rhyme, the description feels more apt.
  — Tess Taylor, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
• Talking with friends There’s no particular rhyme or rhythm to how the show books its guests, Leach said.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Apr. 2022
• After crafting multiple sick rhymes about Barry Keoghan’s junk, summon wee faeries to mop brow with silken kerchief.
  — Johanna Gohmann, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024

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rhyme

2 of 2 verb

• Please find the two lines that rhyme.
• But the loss of the rapper’s masters and rhyme books still stings.
  — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2021
• In hip hop, artists who can rhyme about a lot of things—like Dice Benoit—are poised to do well.
  — C. Brandon Ogbunu, WIRED, 11 Aug. 2023
• And Phoebe sets out to write a Christmas song for her friends but struggles to get it to rhyme.
  — Eric Todisco, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2023
• And Blough — whose name fittingly rhymes with wow — has a flair for it.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 12 Sep. 2019
• Maher made the bold decision to write Bernard and Ellen's words in rhyming verse.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2023
• In these classrooms, soccer chants get mixed in among the nursery rhymes.
  — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2017
• History has, as Mark Twain was supposed to have said, a way of rhyming.
  — Benjy Hansen-Bundy, GQ, 17 Sep. 2017
• Becky’s life can’t help but rhyme with the experience of her great-great-great etc.
  — Vulture, 5 Dec. 2022
• And my last name is Weir which rhymes with a really bad word to call a gay person.
  — NBC News, 11 Apr. 2018
• Even as rhymes ricochet about, the whole seems to eddy from the walls into the room’s center.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• Here, Drake rhymes about how special his partner is at the moment.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 13 July 2018
• 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
• Ali and Frazier fought for the third time in Asia in 1975, in a brutal bout which was given which rhyming nickname?
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• Maybe something that rhymes with her daughter and son’s nicknames, Tay and Bray!?
  — Megan Stein, Country Living, 3 Aug. 2019
• Alas, the feud is one-sided because Gordon can’t rhyme.
  — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2017
• There will be books, music, rhymes and, in general lots of fun.
  — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 29 Sep. 2017
• Whose life, child or elder, will rhyme with them today?
  — Janet Barber, Scientific American, 9 Nov. 2021
• Sounds like someone needs those rhyming flash cards after all.
  — Gabriella Paiella, The Cut, 8 Feb. 2018
• And nature writes poems in the lives of her creatures, with lines that echo and rhyme through the generations.
  — Janet Barber, Scientific American, 9 Nov. 2021
• His friend, Ira Gershwin, told him to get the pencil and a rhyming dictionary and start writing songs.
  — John Blake, CNN, 7 May 2020
• Listen to the first three Chili Peppers albums in quick succession, and your thoughts will rhyme for a week.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2022
• Make one set of clues for every player (try rhyming the clues for fun), each clue leading to the next one and, finally, to the treasure.
  — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• This is no mere pancake—although crepe (rhymes with yep) is French for pancake.
  — Eric Velasco, al, 26 Dec. 2019
• The Clue: This word rhymes with a popular Wordle opener.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• If not a repeat, the situation at least rhymes with what was happening around the start of 1999.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2019
• Ellie’s Deli rhymes, but that’s not how the Antioch sandwich shop earned its name.
  — Shonda Talerico Dudlicek, Lake County News-Sun, 11 Apr. 2018
• And to me, telling a story is way easier than rhyming words, making hooks, and flipping flows.
  — Clover Hope, Men's Health, 10 July 2023
• There could have been a more straightforward monologue here, but instead, she’s taken a bigger, braver leap by setting her story entirely in rhyming verse.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2024
• So to review: Inside the stoic is a comedian, and inside the comedian is a diligent rap student with a rhyming dictionary and a calculator.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024