Examples of couplet in a Sentence
a poem made up of six couplets
a couplet of statues flank the entrance to the church
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His couplets—stitched together by a rhyme—typically saunter in contrary directions.
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Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
The couplets rhyme—mostly—but his rhythms are irregular, more implicit than embodied.
—Pete Tosiello, Pitchfork, 27 Jan. 2026
And so Andrea had just sort of like collected a couple of pages of couplets, a few stanzas.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 11 Jan. 2026
The song and album aren’t always as piercing as the couplet, but brevity allows Showbiz!
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
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Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
The couplets rhyme—mostly—but his rhythms are irregular, more implicit than embodied.
—Pete Tosiello, Pitchfork, 27 Jan. 2026
And so Andrea had just sort of like collected a couple of pages of couplets, a few stanzas.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 11 Jan. 2026
The song and album aren’t always as piercing as the couplet, but brevity allows Showbiz!
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for couplet
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“Couplet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/couplet. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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couplet
noun
cou·plet
ˈkəp-lət 
: two lines of verse that follow in order and form a unit
especially
: two rhyming lines of the same length
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