How to Use couplet in a Sentence

couplet

noun
  • The two sports are like rhyming couplets that play off each other.
    — Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025
  • That Blake couplet in the epigraph above runs through my head.
    — B. R. Cohen, Longreads, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The couplets are clunky at best, and at times downright confused.
    — Jonny Coleman, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Even though each couplet ends with the same word, the rhymes occur on every other line.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2022
  • The opening 12 couplets praise the Almighty.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Apr. 2026
  • In this way, the first two episodes form a couplet that work more powerfully in tandem.
    — Peniel Joseph, CNN, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Choose a line by Shakespeare and pair it with a line of your own to produce a funny rhyming couplet.
    — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
  • This is followed by a couplet of dip support knee tucks and pushups, and a final 10 cals on the bike.
    — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 12 Sep. 2022
  • There’s something about Dounia’s cool couplets overtop a slow step-soul beat that feel crisp and salty.
    — Claire Dodson, Teen Vogue, 20 June 2019
  • His style ranged from rhyming couplets to haiku to blank verse, and his interests were as vast as his gifts for expressing them.
    — Hillel Italie, chicagotribune.com, 4 Sep. 2017
  • The couplet is a useful key to unlocking the themes of her discography.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Either way, these couplets start to reveal just how curious this poem is.
    — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026
  • While Blueface wrecks couplets for kicks, Teejayx6 hacks meter for cash.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2019
  • The couplet that starts the forty-ninth poem, quoted above, roots the reader nicely in sight and sound and therefore place.
    — Wyatt Mason, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • No soaring melody is coming to airlift you to safety, no witty couplet will lighten the mood.
    — David Rees, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
  • And so Andrea had just sort of like collected a couple of pages of couplets, a few stanzas.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Note the way slant and full rhyming couplets provide graceful rails for this poem’s difficult subject.
    — Carol Muske-Dukes, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2018
  • As a young child Allen began writing and singing songs while riding in the car with her mother, who taught her about rhyming couplets.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Apr. 2026
  • To alter the rhyming couplets with extraneous emotion or a hint of free will would be a form of blasphemy.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Carroll characters abound, the dialogue is all in rhyming couplets.
    — Robert Lloyd, Boston Herald, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Bimbo spat into his palm and tried rubbing the foul couplet away, but it was written in permanent marker.
    — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • The elder was singing something in his dull cave, a soft, indecipherable couplet.
    — Vladimir Sorokin, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • Buffed and bare nails served as a jumping off point for couplets of vertical black lines pulled across each tip in deceptively simple guise.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Greig’s script, much of it written in rhyming couplets, is sometimes smug in its modernizing of classic motifs.
    — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • The second couplet is a statement of method, both of Tu Fu and of Weinberger.
    — Wyatt Mason, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • The song and album aren’t always as piercing as the couplet, but brevity allows Showbiz!
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The song and album aren’t always as piercing as the couplet, but brevity allows Showbiz!
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Lehrer's work bounced the absurdities and paranoias of that period back at us, in rhymed couplets and a bouncy piano beat.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Sharon had submitted a dozen couplets about the virtues of stay-at-home motherhood, as well as a rhyming list of reasons to believe in God.
    — Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
  • In my opinion, Bob Dylan, the bard, is the greatest spinner of rhyme and couplet since Shakespeare.
    — Jonathan Takiff, Philly.com, 17 Aug. 2017

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