How to Use pentameter in a Sentence

pentameter

noun

• But then the poet, Guillermo Vilas, found the pentameter of his game, to the cheers of those who obviously preferred the poet to the punk.
  — Dave Anderson, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2017
• The usually reliable Gnapp makes for a blocky Claudius, chugging through lines as if buoyed by the iambic pentameter and nothing more.
  — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 June 2018
• Nobles, for instance, tend to speak in iambic pentameter, while commoners speak in prose.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Oct. 2020
• Shakespeare’s iambic pentameters were sacred, precise as a page of music, never to be broken mid-line, even at a full stop.
  — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
• Shakespearean: Project your scream and use iambic pentameter.
  — Dani Alvarez, The New Yorker, 11 July 2021
• For Rush, the process was not dissimilar from that of tackling the density of Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter.
  — Darryn King, VanityFair.com, 24 Apr. 2017
• Washington is no stranger to iambic pentameter, but his Macbeth is more piercing in his sighs than in his utterances.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2022
• This man has arrived with actual bits and jokes and a series of riddles written in iambic pentameter to introduce The Tight Ass Party.
  — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2021
• The language itself remained the same, maintaining Shakespeare's use of iambic pentameter.
  — Junette Reyes, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• The book received plenty of praise, but many critics missed the point, describing Betts’s work as raw and gritty, when the title poem is entirely in blank verse — unrhymed iambic pentameter.
  — Adam Bradley, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
• Delivering lines about the two devoted coalitions in iambic pentameter is truly a standout of the season.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 22 Apr. 2021
• What started in L.A. in 2010 has become a full-fledged phenomenon in iambic pentameter: based on a suggestion from the audience, the Chickspeare troupe improvise a full play in five acts in the style of one of the Bard’s comedies.
  — Marielle Wakim, Los Angeles Magazine, 11 Aug. 2017
• Elizabeth Marvel as Marc Antony brings down the house with the funeral oration, spicing its pentameter cadence with the gumbo drawl of a southern senator.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 9 June 2017
• Aside from being a nice, tongue-twisting bit of iambic pentameter, What makes lymphatic massage therapy so special?
  — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2020
• Sarah Ruden took upon herself the Herculean task of translating Virgil line-by-line, in iambic pentameter, the normative rhythm of English verse, as dactylic hexameter is of ancient epic.
  — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2017
• Poochigian's dexterous iambic pentameter makes this version of the 3rd-century BCE Greek tale a lively, engaging read.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 5 Dec. 2022
• Mr Kinnear’s goal is to make the iambic pentameter seem as vernacular as artificial.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• From there, Bartlett uses Shakespearean iambic pentameter to point up the disparity between petty-minded behavior and grandiose dreams of a return to power.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 13 Apr. 2022
• Among others, there’s Ranjit Bhatnagar’s Pentametron, a Twitter bot that couples public tweets written in iambic pentameter to create rhyming couplets.
  — Leah Henrickson, Slate Magazine, 29 Aug. 2017
• Doescher and della Quercia relate the history of MacTrump in mock-Elizabethan lingo and mostly iambic pentameter.
  — Joseph Peschel | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 3 Oct. 2019
• At a time when Sexton was giving readings accompanied by a rock band, Bishop was assigning her class exercises in iambic pentameter.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2017
• This Shakespeare engages in a Hamilton-esque rap battle, in iambic pentameter, shouting about the necessity of his verbal dexterity.
  — Eric Thurm, Esquire, 11 July 2017
• Wearing sweatpants, doing acting exercises like trilling my tongue and learning iambic pentameter.
  — Roberta Naas, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
• Raised on jazz and classical and not rock and roll, Bacharach brought a level of melodic sophistication and romanticism — unconventional 5/4 time signatures, melodies that didn’t stick to standard iambic pentameter — into the top 40.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2023
• Elizabethan iambic pentameter has been trimmed, while keeping the songs intact and leaving room for spontaneous actor-audience interactions.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2021
• In the 16th century, English poets developed a distinctive sonnet style using a rhythm called iambic pentameter, where 10-syllable lines have a regular unstressed-stressed rhythmic pattern.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024