Other Words from acrostic

acrostic or less commonly acrostical \ ə-ˈkrȯ-sti-kəl

, -ˈkrä- \ adjective

acrostically \ ə-ˈkrȯ-sti-k(ə-)lē

, -ˈkrä- \ adverb

Examples of acrostic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web All in all, every enjoyable aspect of solving an acrostic is well represented. — Caitlin Lovinger, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020 Each land contains a group of puzzles that range from crosswords and acrostics to cryptograms and engineering problems. — Andrew Hetherington, Popular Mechanics, 12 Mar. 2020 An acrostic is typically a literary technique in which the first letters of the lines of a poem spell out a message. — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2019 The new acrostic is one of many scattered throughout Milton’s text. — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2019 Drew, a twentysomething educator living in Florida, did just that, charming his matches with poems that were also acrostics spelling out such Tinder-favorite pickup lines as SEND NUDES and WANNA SMASH. — Casey Newton, The Verge, 11 Aug. 2018 Some contained complicated puzzles, acrostics, and rebuses (pictures that represent words or parts of words). — Marilyn Yalom, Time, 14 Feb. 2018 Two: The acrostics are a distraction, overshadowing the letters’ primary message. — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2017 Two: The acrostics are a distraction, overshadowing the letters’ primary message. — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2017 See More

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