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rhyme

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noun

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Recent Examples of rhyme
Verb
And naturally, sometimes there may be a rhyming word to it. Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2024 Her rhyming story was originally published in Good Housekeeping in 1956 and was later printed as a picture book. Victoria Edel, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
Noun
Boldy’s forte is methodically fusing multis and end rhymes to construct his capers. Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2024 The barb would elicit responses from both Drake and J. Cole, with J. Cole bowing out early, leaving the rhyme war focused squarely on Drake and Kendrick Lamar. Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 21 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for rhyme 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rhyme
Verb
  • The surge from the tsunami coincided with high tide, flooding parts of Santa Cruz that had never before taken on water, pouring across parking lots and electrical transformers.
    Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2024
  • More news: Legendary Chicago Slugger, Television Analyst, Dies at 79 Sutherland later spent 12 years as a special assistant to the general manager for the Los Angeles Angels (1999-2011), coinciding with the team's first and only World Series championship in 2002.
    Newsweek, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Barnes’ work won them the best poet in the nation award in 2011 and several other honors over the course of their poetry career.
    Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Dec. 2024
  • David Groff, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and educator, recently released his third collection of poetry, Live in Suspense[Trio House Press] .
    Court Stroud, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Note: Most subscribers have some, but not all, of the puzzles that correspond to the following set of solutions for their local newspaper.
    USA TODAY, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Its corresponding streaming gains are enough to push the song onto the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart at No. 16 via 3.7 million streams, a gain of 29%.
    Kevin Rutherford, Billboard, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Now he's recruited a seminal hip-hop figure from beyond our city borders — Slug, from Minneapolis' Atmosphere — who brings prestige to Chapelle's captivating rhymes with his own magnetic verse.
    Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The poem walks readers through how to make the soup in slow, romantic verses.
    Anna Kodé, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Expect to use up multiple pens on this novel in verse, an elegiac meditation on poesy and religion.
    Katie Ward Beim-Esche, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber’s adaptation of T. S. Eliot’s feline poesy ends its Broadway revival.
    ALEXIS SOLOSKI, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2017
Noun
  • Julieta Venegas adds this soft-rock ditty to her long list of memorable songs, a standout for its imaginative lyrics that evoke teenage wonder.
    Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Every year, following the holiday itself, interest in those songs fades almost immediately.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Characters like Felix and Oswald have kind of an unfortunate connection to theater insofar as they’re associated with blackface minstrelsy—the notoriously racist form of stage performance where actors would blacken their faces, wear white gloves, and perform clownish antics.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Henry counted among her influences American minstrelsy, European clowning traditions, and her own collection of African masks.
    News Desk, Artforum, 22 Oct. 2024

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