Sample Sentences forstanza (editor-reviewed)
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I love the song, but seldom sing past the first stanza.stanza = part of a song that has other such parts--each part consisting of a fixed number of lines
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Each of the poem's four stanzas tells part of the story.stanzas = verses
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For some reason, the last stanza to "The Hanging Tree" starts running through my head. (source)stanza = one of many parts of a poem or song
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" 'A poem or stanza with four lines and an alternating rhyme scheme,' " I recited.† (source)
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It is not in Vronsky's saddlebags; Not in Sonnet XXX, stanza one; Not on twenty-seven red ...† (source)
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The hisses and shushes pick up on the next stanza.† (source)
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With a sort of grave courtesy he completed the stanza: 'Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St Clement's, You owe me three farthings, say the bells of St Martin's, When will you pay me?† (source)
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We alternate stanzas, first Finch, then me, Finch, then me.† (source)
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The President switched off the music and, with the final note of the final stanza, there was absolute silence—the silence of stretched expectancy, quivering and creeping with a galvanic life.† (source)
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The last stanzas were written the same week last year that J.T. Telio disappeared.† (source)
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He clicked on an icon of a cat sneezing, and immediately a stanza appeared below.† (source)
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It was mentioned as the most inspiring in the closing speech, and some in the audience asked him to repeat whole stanzas and couplets, exclaiming "Wah wah" when a particular line pleased them, which is a bit like "Bravo."† (source)
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I hummed a stanza of Areida's favorite song, a sad one, about a farmer whose family is starving.† (source)
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Mrs. Nora Baines sang three stanzas of "The Old Rugged Cross," a somber, surefire tearjerker at any funeral, but at Seth's it failed to provoke emotion.† (source)
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Before the first stanza of "Pomp and Circumstance" is over, people are screaming.† (source)
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Elizabeth's eyes were fixed on her with most painful sensations, and she watched her progress through the several stanzas with an impatience which was very ill rewarded at their close; for Mary, on receiving, amongst the thanks of the table, the hint of a hope that she might be prevailed on to favor them again, after the pause of half a minute began another.† (source)
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