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How to use sonnet in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, verb

Sonnet means a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes. Example: “Shakespeare often used volte-faces in the rhyming couplets at the end of his sonnets.”

More sentences with sonnet

  • Shakespeare often used volte-faces in the rhyming couplets at the end of his sonnets.From the entry volte-face
  • The editor decided that repunctuating Shakespeare's sonnets risked damaging their meaning.From the entry repunctuate
  • Does this volume of Shakespeare include his sonnets?From the entry include
  • The woven words of the sonnet were deep and moving.From the entry woven
  • Isaac Rosenberg acutely condemned Rupert Brooke's 'begloried sonnets' for their reliance on 'second-hand phrases'.2011, Geoff Dyer, The Missing of the Somme. From the entry beglory
  • On hearing the Duke of Wellington mispraised he defends him, in a sonnet.1949, Lionel Trilling, Matthew Arnold, →ISBN, page 106. From the entry mispraise
  • The sonnets' most flagrant fault lies in the bathoses into which their final couplets fall.1911, The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, volume 213, page 13. From the entry bathoses
  • “By Omar Duvall, a little-known sonnet by a littler-known poet.”1995, Mary McGarry Morris, Songs in Ordinary Time, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 70. From the entry little-known
  • But besides these examples there are two other ways of expanding the sonnet; by doubling and by caudation.1956, Louis Lavater, The Sonnet in Australasia, a Survey and Selection. From the entry caudation
  • The sonnets of Shakespeare were not scattered broadcast—rapidis ludibria ventis.1902, [Thomas Ebenezer] Webb, “Note E: Of Shake-speare’s Sonnets”, in The Mystery of William Shakespeare: A Summary of Evidence, London…. From the entry garde-robe
  • 'It's an odd choice,' he said, referring to the semi-erotic e.e. cummings poem which Dr Roberts had passed round a week after a raft of Shakespearian sonnets.2012, Eleanor Moran, In a New York Minute, →ISBN. From the entry semi-erotic

Meaning of sonnet

  1. noun A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes.
  2. verb To compose sonnets.
  3. verb To celebrate in sonnets; to write a sonnet about.

Full definition of sonnet

Questions about sonnet in a sentence

How do you use sonnet in a sentence?
Sonnet is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Shakespeare often used volte-faces in the rhyming couplets at the end of his sonnets.”
What is a short sentence with sonnet?
“Does this volume of Shakespeare include his sonnets?”
What does sonnet mean?
Sonnet means a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sonnet (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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