How to Use alliterative in a Sentence

alliterative

adjective

• If so, the QB matchup could be young and alliterative: Lance versus Love.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Sep. 2021
• Just making a movie out of this anonymous, alliterative poem is a wild kind of feat.
  — Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 28 July 2021
• Though Wilmette West has a certain alliterative ring to it, the couple went with Chicago.
  — Lisa Gutierrez and Pete Grathoff, kansascity, 19 Jan. 2018
• Gone, for now, are taco Tuesdays, wine Wednesdays and even non-alliterative traditions such as girls’ night out and date night.
  — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2020
• Bruce Wayne was missing but his alliterative cousin Kate Kane was holding the fort as Batwoman.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• That Lightning Lap is also alliterative is a source of amusement and at least a bit of embarrassment.
  — Car and Driver, 30 Sep. 2017
• When moms are ready to take action, the website outlines three simple, alliterative steps anyone can take to start tackling climate change: swap, share and speak up.
  — Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 6 July 2020
• Mom’s on Marz — the official, alliterative name for the partnership — is one of a host of joint ventures opening throughout the city as a result of the pandemic shutdown.
  — Adam Lukach, chicagotribune.com, 28 Sep. 2020
• The kid with the alliterative name is now a senior at Santa Fe Christian and enjoying a memorable season for the 14-6 Eagles.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2022
• The answer to this week’s contest crossword is an alliterative cartoon character who would have made a good sixth theme answer.
  — WSJ, 4 May 2023
• The series abounds with pairs of hapless bozos whose comedic value is underlined by their alliterative names.
  — Alice Bolin, Longreads, 26 June 2018
• Graow felt almost too fun to be true (especially given Graow's alliterative sobriquets for his new crush), but the second issue proves this concept has gas in the tank.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• The medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight relates this eerily playful tale in 2,530 lines of alliterative verse, a springy and musical metrical form, relishing the gory details.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
• While Jessa and Ben didn't go the alliterative route like Michelle Duggar, their sons' names share other similarities.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 9 Jan. 2019
• Much of the thematic material is transparent, like a simple song a kid would hum, and the alliterative movement titles seemed to cue the orchestra to give it an air of parody.
  — Zoë Madonna, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• Despite the alliterative moniker, the group is more of a loose affiliation of litter-pickers who have found community — and share their bounty — on the website Reddit.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 31 July 2023
• Last week, the boys wrote poems, came up with alliterative sentences, sketched animals, and submitted math worksheets and recordings of themselves reading to their teachers.
  — Serena Ng, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2020
• But the most aggravating episode, the alliterative Sox stupidity, occurred in the sixth when Welington Castillo didn’t run out a popup.
  — Steve Rosenbloom, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2018
• To add another alliterative term, that branding is corny.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
• Despite its cute, alliterative name, this facility is a monotonous grey nightmare where the students are taught how to prey on people by a harsh matron (played by Charlotte Rampling) who in turn preys on them.
  — Esther Zuckerman, Marie Claire, 16 Feb. 2018
• Not a weekend passes without an alliterative fundraiser held on their patios.
  — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 18 Aug. 2017
• Over a Wheezy beat that seesaws between digital comet dust and ghosts playing cello, Gunna coaxes his forebears into an alliterative gymnastics routine for the ages.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
• Here, siblings with alliterative names demonstrate skills.
  — Anya Groner, Longreads, 9 June 2017
• Nothing captured the imagination more than the alliterative vitamin vault, where shoppers could forage for calcium supplements and krill oil in the same setting that bank patrons once retrieved diamonds and stashed cash.
  — Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 29 Dec. 2022
• Wolk’s work will invite many more alliterative superlatives.
  — New York Times, 12 Oct. 2021
• Instead, those asking the question are patronized with sweet-sounding speeches, made with alliterative apologia, often interspersed with recitations about the meaning of America, and ultimately in defense of the status quo.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 8 June 2020
• Alliteration was used as a formal structure in many Indo-European languages, known as alliterative verse.
  — USA TODAY, 9 June 2023
• In addition to an extensive regular menu of more than 50 offerings, 11 dishes were available, including the tempting and alliterative Blueberry Blintzes.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 24 Feb. 2018
• The White House has christened its new alliterative tennis facility, Pandemic Pavilion.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2020
• My alliterative schema for the various listening environments, designed to be annoyingly mnemonic, is corner, club, cathedral, and cocoon.
  — Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024