How to Use sonnet in a Sentence

sonnet

noun

• The sonnets are an open secret, at which the wife scoffs.
  — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• There’s a direct line between the sonnet and the body in Hayes’s work.
  — New York Times, 19 June 2018
• Here is the sonnet in full: My wife's the reason anything gets done.
  — Danielle Odiamar, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 June 2016
• Prescription-drug ads are like sonnets: the artistry is constrained by the rules of the form.
  — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• It can be done well or it can be done poorly, like a sonnet.
  — Steve Heisler, Chicago Reader, 8 Sep. 2017
• The star has long held a penchant for crafting tweets that read like lines from a sonnet.
  — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 11 July 2022
• And for me, that looks like my imaginary boyfriend writing a sonnet in the sky with a G-6 airplane.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 27 Feb. 2018
• What better home for Lazarus’ sonnet than a huge statue in need of a purpose?
  — Elizabeth Stone, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2023
• The series of sonnets centers on Galileo and the way the Catholic Church charged him with heresy for claiming the earth moves around the sun, going against the tenets of scripture.
  — Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
• There’s been much ado about whether Shakespeare’s sonnets were written to a woman or a man.
  — National Geographic, 21 Apr. 2016
• There’s been much ado about whether Shakespeare’s sonnets were written to a woman or a man.
  — National Geographic, 21 Apr. 2016
• Symmes, the erstwhile standby, even wrote a sonnet in her honor.
  — Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 13 Feb. 2018
• The team started with sonnets, then went on to limericks.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
• Terrance Hayes has, with more than a bit of shade, created his own brand of hip-hop sonnet.
  — Terrance Hayes, New York Times, 28 June 2018
• The name was chosen by Oppenheimer, in tribute to a sonnet by John Donne.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 20 July 2023
• In 1903, her famous sonnet was cast on a bronze plaque and attached to the inner wall of the Statue of Liberty.
  — Sari Beth Rosenberg, Parents, 5 Mar. 2024
• Many of those questions and uncertainties found shape in the sonnet form.
  — Terrance Hayes, New York Times, 22 June 2018
• These bots can come up with sonnets, code, philosophy, and more.
  — David Nield, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2023
• Other sonnet branches are scattered in the backyard, fourteen limbs decked out in the darling buds of May.
  — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
• Jon read the most hauntingly beautiful sonnet, #17 by Pablo Neruda, and said a few words as the couple beamed.
  — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 14 June 2018
• The poem can be in any form — sonnet, haiku, limerick or whatever — but must not be longer than 100 words.
  — Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2022
• Kotzin loves form, from open verse to tight, traditional sonnets, as in the title poem.
  — Philly.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• Lederer will demonstrate the enduring nature of the Bard’s words through the playwright’s plays and sonnets.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2023
• For whatever reason, these lines from a famous sonnet echo in my mind.
  — cleveland, 31 Jan. 2023
• Fernandes tests this question in a crown of sonnets that appear in the book’s second section.
  — Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• Maybe your family treasured beloved sonnets, or footprints in the sand.
  — Cassie Owens, Philly.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• Lazarus was very progressive in some ways as a poet, but her diction was old fashioned, and the first part of the sonnet deals with the history and values of the Old World.
  — Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Aug. 2017
• Of course, sonnets and haiku are famous for employing strict counts on lines and syllables.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 26 Apr. 2018
• The result is a cacophony that is one part dance anthem, one part sonnet.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
• Some interludes are silly, some are loud, some are sonnets.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 26 Jul 2024