How to Use haiku in a Sentence

haiku

noun

• He has written many beautiful haiku.
• In a haiku, Becky Finnigan shared her hopes for the city.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 1 Apr. 2021
• Here’s your week in review, in haiku 1. don’t say a word.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 21 June 2019
• Think of your copy as a haiku, where every word bears weight.
  — Christian Anderson (trust'n), Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2023
• The five-note series used in many duck calls reminded me of the first line of a haiku.
  — Author: Christine Cunningham, Alaska Dispatch News, 10 Oct. 2017
• Like haiku's many of them work with brief, quick moments and feelings.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 6 June 2018
• For one project, girls write a haiku and then create a video to illustrate the poem.
  — Katie Dean, WIRED, 17 June 2002
• The theme is, of course, udon, and the winner will have their haiku printed on Marugame Udon employee shirts.
  — Jeremy Hallock, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2021
• In the midst of all that, writing haiku may have been his sole consolation.
  — Haruki Murakami, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
• Think about your favorite season and come prepared to write your own haiku.
  — courant.com, 16 Mar. 2022
• Scott and Pugh reviewed Ceron’s work, both laughing heartily over a haiku Ceron had turned in.
  — Maya Lora, Baltimore Sun, 14 June 2024
• Kigo, the phrases that evoke the feel of the seasons, are the foundation of haiku poetry.
  — Matt Alt, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
• The short songs feature haiku-like lyrics or phrases repeated over and over in chant-like rhythms.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Mar. 2021
• Some are as short as haiku, direct, heartfelt, humbling to the reader.
  — Ellen Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2022
• His brother spoke to him through a loudspeaker; his father left him a haiku.
  — Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker, 16 June 2022
• Netflix, Roku haiku, one patient Basho letter at a time.
  — Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
• While most were decent, some of the one-star lodgings were noisy and squalid, as described by one haiku: Fleas and lice, the horse pissing next to my pillow.
  — Hiroshi Okamoto, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2020
• The brand is inspired by haiku and nature and hails from Berkley, California.
  — Jacorey Moon, Good Housekeeping, 9 Sep. 2022
• The evening—which also featured a flower crown station, live music, and on-the-spot haikus—raised $2.9 million for the Public.
  — The Editors, Town & Country, 13 June 2023
• The Japanese people for centuries have used the poetry of haiku to write about the beauty of nature.
  — Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 26 Dec. 2019
• Young harbors no ill will toward the filmmakers for reducing her role of Chani almost to the point of haiku.
  — WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
• Joe, get like a haiku or like a motivational saying texted to you.
  — Kira Bindrim, Quartz, 25 Apr. 2022
• Both Wright and Kerouac were drawn to haiku as an art of improvisation.
  — Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 25 June 2020
• Tom Ziller wrote his entire mock draft for SBNation in haiku format.
  — Rachel Roberts, idahostatesman, 20 June 2018
• And there’s also a haiku contest, with rules forthcoming.
  — Jeremy Hallock, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2021
• Most Western accounts of fugu, like this one, resort to quoting haiku to try to give the fish cultural context.
  — New York Times, 4 Dec. 2020
• Like a perfect haiku, the Pop Art exhibit at the Margulies Collection says a lot with so little.
  — Siobhan Morrissey, miamiherald, 4 Nov. 2017
• 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
• The book is filled with stories from her own life, including some very funny haiku attributed to those dogs.
  — Deborah Martin, ExpressNews.com, 10 Mar. 2020
• Nguyen responded: Not quite a haiku / Syllables short by a few / Five seven five, too.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2023

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024