Assonant

Word ASSONANT
Character 8
Hyphenation as so nant
Pronunciations N/A

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The word "assonant" in example sentences

The straitjacket of meter and cadence of its composition drew out the worst and best of whomever had already tried their hand in battle with assonant rhymes. ❋ Yoani Sanchez (2011)

The story gave newspapers the opportunity to use their two favourite words together, resulting in the gleefully assonant “Terror Blunder”. ❋ Unknown (2009)

            "What is the word for which you are seeking an assonant?" ❋ Unknown (2010)

Respite comes, as one might expect with Dickens, in equally phonemic terms, floated upon (in that same paragraph) the sibilant, assonant, and iambic bonding of "inseparable and blessed" to describe the union of the title figure and Arthur Clennam, the man whose fetishistic vision of her impoverishment has seen her until now as a ❋ Unknown (2008)

The assonant low short u vowel sound darkens the tone of this eerie image: smudged, thumbs, guns, fluttered. ❋ Lemon Hound (2009)

Alas, I do not have photographic evidence of the last artwork someone saddled this poor van with -- an assonant mural called "The Vein Train." ❋ Spidersweb (2006)

According to conventional wisdom, the lost Inca city of Machu Picchu was discovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham, a dashing American explorer with a satisfyingly assonant name who later went on to be the Governor of Connecticut and a US Senator. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Anyhoo, the sequence finds a new pattern in the regularity of two "couplets" of sonnets (1122), the opening sonnet marking the shift with assonant rhymes (I did reckon those rhymes gave a sense of instability and tension, pushing against the constraints, which ... fitted here; it kinda makes sense now why I felt that way). ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)

Brian: Those two sonnets I think of as still in the AABB scheme, just ... stretching it with the assonant rather than full rhymes (sorta "AaBb" rather than "abcd"). ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)

The last three sonnets -- again with the assonant rhyme sonnet marking the transition -- do finally settle into an alternating rhyme scheme ... except that they form a triplet, so the asymmetry should balance the regularity. ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)

At what point did he see that the two important women in the novel, Amy and the "delighting" young writer Jamie Logan — the object of Zuckerman's dead-end desire — have usefully assonant names? ❋ Unknown (2007)

But the two people behind the names - are they assonant as well? ❋ Justinker (2005)

And then she realizes that their names are assonant too. ❋ Justinker (2005)

She writes on her own notepad, a line from a poem they studied last week, and underlines the assonant words. ❋ Justinker (2005)

But before that it was called Pishpek and now it is Bishkek; what is the relationship between these amusingly assonant names? ❋ Unknown (2004)

The word topsy entered the English language in 1528 as part of the assonant adverb topsy-turvy. ❋ William Safire (2003)

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