Sample sentences for ALLITERATION

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Definition

use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable — such as "rapidly rising river"

Having a weakness for alliteration, his first tweet was "I am tweeting to test this Twitter thing."

I could see Macdona among the doctors—"Hope in Harley Street"—Mac had always a weakness for alliteration.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- The Poison Belt
I did so purely for the sake of alliteration, Ana; and I shall make no further allusion to them.
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
Valentine had a knack for alliteration that made her phrases memorable.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
I only wish I had an excellent answer, something pithy and substantive, maybe with a little alliteration, but instead I have one that's merely short.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Mere alliteration, Mrs. Pearce, natural to a poet.
George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion
Carla Carlucci: alliteration.
Anne Tayler -- A Spool of Blue Thread
"Scholastic Aptitude Practice Test, English, Part III" floats at eye level, atop a long column of words-"cacophony," "metaphor," "alliteration"-and choices of definitions.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
I don't know what this — jolly old — Jaundiced Jail,' Tom had paused to find a sufficiently complimentary and expressive name for the parental roof, and seemed to relieve his mind for a moment by the strong alliteration of this one, 'would be without you.'
Charles Dickens -- Hard Times
Or something more than alliteration, but I don't know the term for it.
Anne Tayler -- A Spool of Blue Thread
Aside from the tragic alliteration, he was perfect in every single way.
Kody Keplinger -- The DUFF: (Designated Ugly Fat Friend)
I would have thought that he was too drunk to recite a limerick but he sounded off endlessly, in perfect scansion with complex inner rhymes and rippling alliterations, an astounding feat of virtuosity in rhetoric.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road

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