How to Use free verse in a Sentence

free verse

noun

• How did the idea of spitting free verse come to mind for this project?
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 24 June 2022
• His style is like free verse, at once spare and dense with feeling and meaning.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
• Indeed, much of Dose’s best work has been free verse—rooted in hip-hop, but not stuck in it.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2022
• Her language spills over the page in free verse that suggests Ntozake Shange but lays down its own rhythms.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
• This book for young readers, written in free verse, was the winner of a 2020 Newbery Honor.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 22 Apr. 2021
• Douglas, evidently not a fan of free verse, was unmoved.
  — Kevin Canfield, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Jan. 2018
• Still, the focus here remains the lyrics, which seem to flow unbidden from Elverum in long streams of hyper-detailed, confessional free verse.
  — Terence Cawley, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Reynolds writes this in free verse, an effective strategy that packs an emotional punch.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• Gunn became the prodigal son who never returned, and many English critics lined up to castigate him for running to seed—and to free verse—in America.
  — Matthew Bevis, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
• An astonishing statement, this, given that Pound is himself arguably the greatest free verse poet in the language!
  — New York Times, 29 Apr. 2022
• Love at First is poetry, then — sometimes an artful sonnet, other times halting free verse.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2021
• Terse, direct, composed in free verse rather than meter, Imagist poetry sought to strip verse down to the bones and think exclusively through concrete images.
  — Charlie Tyson, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2022
• Somehow, Acevedo’s powerful free verse manages to stay contained within the book’s covers.
  — Julie Fogliano, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
• Written as prose poetry and free verse, the sweep is as vast as a life cycle: from childhood to parenthood to the loss of a parent, invoking an overall vision that is clear-eyed and skinned, yet somehow courageous and even hopeful.
  — oregonlive, 9 Nov. 2019
• Glück’s free verse is exacting and taut and rhetorically organized.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020
• This came as no surprise to Smith, whose remarkable ability to recognize darkness while tenaciously holding onto hope is embodied in the 17 lines of free verse.
  — Jessica Dulong, CNN, 30 Nov. 2020
• The essay encourages an oddly suspicious, even paranoid reading of most free verse as phony poetry, as prose in costume.
  — Elisa Gabbert, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2022
• Her riddles interleave what reads like a sociological thesis told in free verse.
  — Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2021
• Marjorie Price’s illustrations are the perfect complement to this collection of both free verse and traditional poetry.
  — Augusta Scattergood, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2020
• The event is open to anyone interested in learning about the modern haiku, senryu and haibun types of poetry, focusing on contemporary free verse forms, not the familiar five-seven-five-syllable structure.
  — Carole Goldberg, courant.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• But no primer quite equips the reader for the free verse that follows — an exhale of recipes, memoir, travelogue, social commentary and gossip that illuminates one Black woman’s experience like no work of literature before or since.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024