How to Use rhyme in a Sentence

rhyme

1 of 2 noun
  • They're learning about meter and rhyme.
  • There are a lot of echoes and rhymes inside his work.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The rhymes hurtle out at double and triple time.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • There’ll be plenty of rhyme and reason for all.
    — Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 14 Aug. 2025
  • None of them, however, could live on rhyme alone.
    — Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The more common refrain was a three-word rhyme not fit for print.
    — The Arizona Republic, 12 Feb. 2023
  • The rhymes are wicked smart, clever and memorable.
    — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Bad things happen and there's no rhyme, there's no reason.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
  • There’ll be hits, and there’ll be just rhymes and beats happening.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Nicolle closed out her routine with a rhyme that won her the one-on-one date that night.
    — Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
  • One thing people don’t know is that Dirty did not write a lot of rhymes.
    — Dante Ross, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The older boy would sing a little rhyme about a dog and a hunter in the woods.
    — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
  • There’s lots of fun to be had, in a show that rhymes nonplussed with calcu-lust.
    — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Glass and Sanders are just four years apart in age, and for decades, their lives spoke in rhymes.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 21 June 2026
  • Why were rhymes about crimes allowed in one case and denied in the other?
    — Bill Hochberg, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Not in a strict sense, but there are rhymes and repetitions.
    — Hannah Gold, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The narration is written in rhyme, meant to evoke rap lyrics.
    — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 July 2022
  • It's got a lot going on, but there's a reason to every rhyme.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 6 June 2026
  • It's got a lot going on, but there's a reason to every rhyme.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Another kid teaches you the jump-rope rhyme.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
  • And the best idea someone could come up with was a rhyme for the Jets and Mets?
    — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Or so the rhyme goes—but life in the 21st century may force a change of plan.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2023
  • And that meant unraveling the rhymes and coming up with new ones.
    — Barbra Streisand, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The rhyme is a reminder for people to respect hip-hop culture.
    — Julie Walker, Freep.com, 7 Aug. 2021
  • The market didn’t have a tone nor tenor/rhyme nor reason for trading action.
    — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 3 June 2021
  • On many days, when hope and history do not rhyme, the description feels more apt.
    — Tess Taylor, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
  • The MCs got in on it, speaking their own clever rhymes and wordplay over it.
    — Deepti Hajela, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The old-timey rhymes don’t lie; March certainly comes in like a lion.
    — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 10 Mar. 2026
  • There was clear rhyme and reason to the availability.
    — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The beat stopped for a second, and then resumed, so that Fivio could think of the next rhyme.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022

rhyme

2 of 2 verb
  • Please find the two lines that rhyme.
  • What stands out is how the worlds rhyme.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Time, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Quartz doesn’t rhyme with parts, but rather shorts.
    — Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
  • Stuff rhymed then that doesn’t rhyme now; stuff rhymes, then doesn’t rhyme, then rhymes again.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 14 Nov. 2025
  • But worn really ought not rhyme with scorn.
    — Literary Hub, 19 June 2026
  • Sounds like someone needs those rhyming flash cards after all.
    — Gabriella Paiella, The Cut, 8 Feb. 2018
  • But the loss of the rapper’s masters and rhyme books still stings.
    — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2021
  • Nobody said nicknames had to rhyme.
    — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2025
  • His name rhymes with Mad Funny, which is what all of this is.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 29 Jan. 2026
  • There will be books, music, rhymes and, in general lots of fun.
    — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • And Blough — whose name fittingly rhymes with wow — has a flair for it.
    — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 12 Sep. 2019
  • In these classrooms, soccer chants get mixed in among the nursery rhymes.
    — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2017
  • Becky’s life can’t help but rhyme with the experience of her great-great-great etc.
    — Vulture, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Their names rhyme with feta, frugal, and pickpock.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • In hip hop, artists who can rhyme about a lot of things—like Dice Benoit—are poised to do well.
    — C. Brandon Ogbunu, WIRED, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Here, Drake rhymes about how special his partner is at the moment.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 13 July 2018
  • And my last name is Weir which rhymes with a really bad word to call a gay person.
    — NBC News, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Its offstage antics don’t rhyme with what happens during the shows.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
  • This is no mere pancake—although crepe (rhymes with yep) is French for pancake.
    — Eric Velasco, al, 26 Dec. 2019
  • The words rhyme, and saying them to the beat one after the other turns it into a tongue twister.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
  • And the show’s name, which notably rhymes with a famous curse word, got people talking.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • And Phoebe sets out to write a Christmas song for her friends but struggles to get it to rhyme.
    — Eric Todisco, Peoplemag, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The event will celebrate favorite stories, songs, and rhymes.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 23 Dec. 2019
  • History has, as Mark Twain was supposed to have said, a way of rhyming.
    — Benjy Hansen-Bundy, GQ, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Such inner dwindling is most evident when Berninger tries to rhyme with his own past self.
    — James Robins, Vulture, 1 May 2023
  • And to me, telling a story is way easier than rhyming words, making hooks, and flipping flows.
    — Clover Hope, Men's Health, 10 July 2023
  • Maher made the bold decision to write Bernard and Ellen's words in rhyming verse.
    — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Any chance that proposed guest's name might rhyme with Pakota Dohnson?
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 16 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Sunday Take a shot at rhyming, beatboxing, dancing and more at these freestyle events.
    — Mariecar Mendoza, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2018

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