How to Use sonnet in a Sentence

sonnet

noun
  • The star has long held a penchant for crafting tweets that read like lines from a sonnet.
    — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 11 July 2022
  • There’s a direct line between the sonnet and the body in Hayes’s work.
    — New York Times, 19 June 2018
  • Symmes, the erstwhile standby, even wrote a sonnet in her honor.
    — Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • These bots can come up with sonnets, code, philosophy, and more.
    — David Nield, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2023
  • In his sonnets, Shakespeare pairs was with glass, and warmed with disarmed.
    — Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
  • By simply turning just one strip, the sonnet is altered.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • People who spend the day after a date writing sonnets in their Notes app.
    — Olivia Petter, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2024
  • What better home for Lazarus’ sonnet than a huge statue in need of a purpose?
    — Elizabeth Stone, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • For whatever reason, these lines from a famous sonnet echo in my mind.
    — cleveland, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Many of those questions and uncertainties found shape in the sonnet form.
    — Terrance Hayes, New York Times, 22 June 2018
  • There’s been much ado about whether Shakespeare’s sonnets were written to a woman or a man.
    — National Geographic, 21 Apr. 2016
  • Terrance Hayes has, with more than a bit of shade, created his own brand of hip-hop sonnet.
    — Terrance Hayes, New York Times, 28 June 2018
  • Maybe your family treasured beloved sonnets, or footprints in the sand.
    — Cassie Owens, Philly.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The result is a cacophony that is one part dance anthem, one part sonnet.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Today’s large language models can write sonnets and debug code.
    — Nicole Fraenkel, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Of course, sonnets and haiku are famous for employing strict counts on lines and syllables.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Kotzin loves form, from open verse to tight, traditional sonnets, as in the title poem.
    — Philly.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Fernandes tests this question in a crown of sonnets that appear in the book’s second section.
    — Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
  • His sonnets are vital and unforgettable, anchored by their sense of place and time rather than contained by it.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 15 Nov. 2018
  • And for me, that looks like my imaginary boyfriend writing a sonnet in the sky with a G-6 airplane.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The captive—and Cervantes—found something moving in those sonnets, something that gave them the will to hope.
    — Ed Simon september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The tracklist includes songs set in every season and a sonnet-like ode to an ice-cold Staropramen.
    — Shaad D’souza, Pitchfork, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Other sonnet branches are scattered in the backyard, fourteen limbs decked out in the darling buds of May.
    — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
  • The language model was the main component that generated the sonnet, word by word.
    — Jey Han Lau, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2020
  • The name was chosen by Oppenheimer, in tribute to a sonnet by John Donne.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 20 July 2023
  • This is a sonnet that invokes its status as a sonnet only to transcend the structures of its form, a prison that unlocks itself.
    — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
  • The poem can be in any form — sonnet, haiku, limerick or whatever — but must not be longer than 100 words.
    — Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2022
  • And that a major plot in the novels involves sentient, talking animals that love sonnets and science?
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Sir Patrick Stewart has been reading a Shakespeare sonnet every day.
    — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 10 July 2020
  • Lederer will demonstrate the enduring nature of the Bard’s words through the playwright’s plays and sonnets.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2023

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