How to Use verse in a Sentence

verse

noun

• The second verse is sung the same way as the first.
• The epic tale was written in verse.
• If this reads to you more like prose than verse, that’s part of the point.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• Niall takes the next verse, then Blake and Kelly, and back again.
  — Country Living Staff, Country Living, 13 Apr. 2023
• LeRette asks John, a small, older man in a hoodie, to read the verse.
  — Andrew Kay, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2023
• It’s all part of what’s become known as the Sheridan-verse.
  — Dallas News, 6 Dec. 2022
• On the next verse, take it back down to your baseline tempo.
  — ​jessica Migala, SELF, 6 Feb. 2023
• When Swift goes up an octave in the track’s second verse.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2023
• Is the world too much with us, late and soon, as William Wordsworth posited in verse more than 200 years ago?
  — David Holahan, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2024
• And things like third dimension This was the style in the ‘30s and ‘40s, to introduce a song with a verse.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023
• New year — a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story?
  — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 5 Dec. 2022
• Verse by verse, the song moves from despair toward hope.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2023
• Looking for even more from Mickey, Minnie, and the rest of the Disney-verse?
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 18 Jan. 2023
• The song has verse partially in rap and then these huge notes for bodie to belt in the chorus.
  — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 29 Nov. 2022
• And with that, Paris herself emerged from the shadows to join Miley and Sia on the final verse.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 31 Dec. 2022
• His verses adorned subway cars and posters sold in street fairs.
  — Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2024
• As a writer, that was a lot of fun putting that verse together.
  — William E. Ketchum Iii, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2023
• In a later verse, Jimin looks back on how far he’s come with the band and celebrates the fans who have come along for the ride.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2023
• There are places where the boys rescued a word or a phrase to make a reprise of the verse which makes sense – Freddie did three takes – but that’s it.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 16 Nov. 2022
• The new verse appears to be a callback to how Lizzo was feeling last year.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2023
• Mitchell’s voice was a bit shaky at first but grew stronger and more expressive with each new verse.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
• His voice was so sincere, and that first verse and chorus is just him and a piano.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2023
• Love and verse: From them, Robinson’s early songs bloomed.
  — Jason Heller, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2023
• The Great American West might as well be renamed the Taylor-verse.
  — David Katz and Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2022
• Sometimes, the old master got stuck on a verse, forgetting a line in one of his 600 songs.
  — Mujib Mashal Jim Huylebroek, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• His father read out verses from the corner of the stage, rather than his usual spot in the center.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2023
• Then again, that verse about self-immolation, á la the monk the Rage cover?
  — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 20 Dec. 2022
• The destruction of the pub has inspired not only mourning, but verse.
  — Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2023
• In 2015, Trump also called the Bible his favorite book, but famously declined to share a favorite verse.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
• That same year, a clip of a 2015 Bloomberg interview, in which Trump declines to name his favorite — or any — Bible verse resurfaced on social media and went viral.
  — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 27 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024