Used in a Sentence

rhyming

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for rhyming.

Editorial note

No there's rhyming all over the place in this one, just not always on the end of the line.

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rhyme

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noun

rhyme

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for rhyming.

Example sentences

1

No there's rhyming all over the place in this one, just not always on the end of the line.

2

For a discussion of the ease of rhyming in French versus English, see, e.g., this book [0].

3

Once you work that out they'll start using yards for billion, then after this Cockney rhyming slang.

4

Someone should make a cockney rhyming slang 'skin' for a programming language's naming conventions, e.g.

5

Or, if you like natural language processing, check out iRhyme, my iPhone NLP rhyming dictionary.

6

It's important to be aware that the original has a very intricate rhyming structure that is never preserved in the translations.

7

I enjoyed reading Falling Up [1] as a way to help my kids understand that poetry is more than rhyming.

8

While I'd considered poetry (especially using rhyming dictionaries) -- my main idea so far is to just construct grammatically well-formed sentences.

9

If M$ could have had issues over phonetically rhyming domain name and take the kid to court, why not plurk taking microsoft into court for something serious.

10

But Shakespeare wrote mostly blank verse, and rhyming is not as much of a constraint on vocabulary in French due to the high commonality of word endings.

11

I was not duped by the old english poetry, but only because I recently wrote a Markov-chain / rhyming dictionary based Shakesperean sonnet generator.

12

Yes, without accent detection, the 'limericks' it finds can generally only be read with forced stresses, and the rhyming schemes it winds up with can be quite weak (rhyming an unstressed 'the' at the end of two lines, for example).

Quote examples

1

I wonder what you would accept as "empirical evidence" of the relative ease of rhyming in different languages.

2

Neither comes close to rhyming with range, but which is "correct"?

3

Things like "does it have a rhyming scheme and meter".

4

Gladwell's error was like saying it as "moy", rhyming with "toy".

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use rhyming in a sentence?

No there's rhyming all over the place in this one, just not always on the end of the line.

What does rhyming mean?

rhyme

What part of speech is rhyming?

rhyming is commonly used as noun.