How to Use couplet in a Sentence

couplet

noun
  • And so that couplet turned into a great piece of advice.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 14 May 2021
  • This is followed by a couplet of dip support knee tucks and pushups, and a final 10 cals on the bike.
    Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 12 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Even though each couplet ends with the same word, the rhymes occur on every other line.
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2022
  • In this way, the first two episodes form a couplet that work more powerfully in tandem.
    Peniel Joseph, CNN, 28 Jan. 2023
  • The couplet is a useful key to unlocking the themes of her discography.
    Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
  • In my opinion, Bob Dylan, the bard, is the greatest spinner of rhyme and couplet since Shakespeare.
    Jonathan Takiff, Philly.com, 17 Aug. 2017
  • There’s something about Dounia’s cool couplets overtop a slow step-soul beat that feel crisp and salty.
    Claire Dodson, Teen Vogue, 20 June 2019
  • While Blueface wrecks couplets for kicks, Teejayx6 hacks meter for cash.
    Chris Richards, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2019
  • His style ranged from rhyming couplets to haiku to blank verse, and his interests were as vast as his gifts for expressing them.
    Hillel Italie, chicagotribune.com, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Bursting with rapped couplets, the score is a big part of the show’s power — and popularity.
    Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2017
  • Of course, there are also the lyrics: heartfelt couplets that exalt God and thank Him for being a constant presence in her life.
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Indeed, around the same time, Auden wrote a famous haiku, and Frank Loesser a famous couplet, about the binding drink of the era, the Martini.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • To alter the rhyming couplets with extraneous emotion or a hint of free will would be a form of blasphemy.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Drake also finds time to take a mild swipe at Kanye West in a couplet suggesting that the long-running feud between them is not quite settled.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2023
  • No soaring melody is coming to airlift you to safety, no witty couplet will lighten the mood.
    David Rees, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
  • There’s a couplet that is clearly about George W. Bush, and Prine noticed that some audience members were surprised by it.
    Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Justin Paul: Finding those couplets was like a very fun, juicy experiment.
    Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Lehrer's work bounced the absurdities and paranoias of that period back at us, in rhymed couplets and a bouncy piano beat.
    Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • By the time Ann finished the second couplet, the whole audience had leaned in, roused by allusion to eros and automatic weapons.
    Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • Note the way slant and full rhyming couplets provide graceful rails for this poem’s difficult subject.
    Carol Muske-Dukes, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Although Drake’s couplets were often comedic, Gates’ writing sought to capture the anger that was and is undoubtedly present in the lives of the enslaved and in their descendants.
    Shantay Robinson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Bimbo spat into his palm and tried rubbing the foul couplet away, but it was written in permanent marker.
    Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • Buffed and bare nails served as a jumping off point for couplets of vertical black lines pulled across each tip in deceptively simple guise.
    Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Only in the second act, with the onerous exposition out of the way, do the couplets begin to give birth to satisfying story.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2018
  • The elder was singing something in his dull cave, a soft, indecipherable couplet.
    Vladimir Sorokin, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • Greig’s script, much of it written in rhyming couplets, is sometimes smug in its modernizing of classic motifs.
    The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • The couplet, and the razor-wire guitar riff around it, serve as an abrupt introduction into Lovato’s new era.
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 10 June 2022
  • El Conejo Malo's lyrical steez is syrupy in sound and chopped and screwed in cadence, with hooks and couplets that are more melodious and bouncy than in-your-face or razor-sharp.
    Marjua Estevez, Billboard, 27 Nov. 2017
  • The Patriots and Jets are the first teams this season to complete their intra-divisional couplet.
    Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2021

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