Sample Sentences for
sonnet
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  • While we're on the topic of old Will's insufficiencies, your writing about young Hazel reminds me of the Bard's Fifty-fifth sonnet, which of course begins, "Not marble, nor the gilded monuments / Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; / But you shall shine more bright in these contents / Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time."  (source)
    sonnet = poem of a particular form
  • Oh, and should it ever come up, you and Professor Sirovich had a lengthy debate on the future of the sonnet.  (source)
  • And everyone who read Sonnets of a Sorcerer spoke in limericks for the rest of their lives.  (source)
    Sonnets = poems of a particular form
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  • He recites a sonnet that compares me to a summer day.  (source)
    sonnet = poem of a particular form
  • I used to think poetry was just a bunch of British dudes wearing tights and writing sonnets with a peacock feather, but there's a lot more to it.  (source)
    sonnets = poems of a particular form
  • none but minstrels like of sonneting.†  (source)
  • Chapter 4 — If It's Square, It's a Sonnet.  (source)
    Sonnet = poem of a particular form
  • Sonnets of a Sorcerer—that's not even allowed in Hogwarts!†  (source)
  • A sonnet I could have handled.†  (source)
  • A poet read his most recent verses to the Love Cycle sonnets.†  (source)
  • But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.†  (source)
  • Compose sonnets?†  (source)
  • I love you as one loves certain dark things —Pablo Neruda, "Sonnet XVII".†  (source)
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