Examples of couplet in a Sentence
a poem made up of six couplets
a couplet of statues flank the entrance to the church
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The rhyming couplet wasn’t going to win any poetry awards.
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Billy Perrigo, Time, 27 Mar. 2025
The two sports are like rhyming couplets that play off each other.
—Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025
The song and album aren’t always as piercing as the couplet, but brevity allows Showbiz!
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The couplets are clunky at best, and at times downright confused.
—Jonny Coleman, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Billy Perrigo, Time, 27 Mar. 2025
The two sports are like rhyming couplets that play off each other.
—Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025
The song and album aren’t always as piercing as the couplet, but brevity allows Showbiz!
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
The couplets are clunky at best, and at times downright confused.
—Jonny Coleman, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
See All Example Sentences for couplet
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“Couplet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/couplet. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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couplet
noun
cou·plet
ˈkəp-lət 
: two lines of verse that follow in order and form a unit
especially
: two rhyming lines of the same length
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