How to Use enjambment in a Sentence

enjambment

noun
  • That album had so many more tracks, which fueled The Tortured Poets Department’s chart enjambment.
    — Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Pay special attention to capitalization, enjambment, line breaks, and punctuation.
    — PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
  • All three poems incorporate a variety of punctuation, while their capitalization, enjambment, and line breaks generally add up to more than prose without feeling incoherent.
    — PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The blips are short, ribbonlike lyrics, trimmed to the moment, their sharp enjambments inspired by the Renaissance-era poet Robert Herrick; the loop-the-loops follow long Proustian arcs in margin-busting lines reminiscent of Walt Whitman.
    — Dan Chiasson, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Rejecting the streamlining and modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn artfully reproduces the epic’s formal qualities—meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance—and in so doing restores to Homer’s masterwork its archaic grandeur.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025

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