How to Use alliteration in a Sentence

alliteration

noun

• And his turns of phrase, his alliteration and all of that just drew me in.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2019
• But the real reason had less to do with alliteration and more to do with the almighty.
  — Shoaib Daniyal, Quartz India, 4 June 2019
• Props to the student who named him for taking alliteration to the next level.
  — Joan Niesen, SI.com, 3 Aug. 2017
• If there's a little alliteration to go off of, all the better.
  — Robert Cocuzzo, Town & Country, 8 Mar. 2017
• For all the euphony and alliteration of the phrase, winter white is more of a squirrel-meat gray.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
• Taken in more or less in a fell swoop, the breadth of it all was, for lack of a more original alliteration, beyond belief.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
• If that isn't a beautiful thought, at least give me props for my alliteration skillz.
  — Tess Koman, Cosmopolitan, 28 Oct. 2015
• His words caught fire, roared, ready to move people in unison with the memorable lilt of meter and alliteration.
  — Susan J. Wolfson, The Atlantic, 18 June 2022
• And his band's name comes from bears being in the Michigan woods as well as Nyblad's love of alliteration.
  — Mike Danahey, Elgin Courier-News, 29 June 2017
• The effort doesn’t just focus on caterpillars, but who can resist a good alliteration?
  — Molly Schools, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2020
• The opening alliteration is some of Pac’s best lyrical display.
  — cleveland.com, 16 June 2017
• This feels like a missed opportunity for alliteration for me.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 3 Apr. 2018
• The words, in their alliteration and biblical-sounding import, were meant to instill shock and demand respect.
  — John McMurtrie, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Jan. 2018
• Like most of his work, this poem was meant to be read aloud, using colloquialisms, wordplay, alliteration.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2021
• The dialogue snaps with playful alliteration, repetition and puns, even rhymes that punch up lines rather than overpower them.
  — Maya Phillips, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2023
• Priyanka Chopra's dog @diariesofdiana Looks like alliteration runs in the family!
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2020
• Each letter in this book features a story in Spanish and an illustration, and alliteration is used as a learning device.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2018
• There’s been a ton of success with this program before that but with this latest alliteration of what UCF is, those guys are as big a part of it as anyone.
  — Matt Murschel, orlandosentinel.com, 16 Nov. 2020
• The relationship between growth and Grafton goes much further than simple alliteration.
  — Geoff Bruce, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2018
• And his nickname, then, was nothing more than an alliteration between the words in Spanish for butcher (carnicero) and song (canción).
  — Eduardo Halfon, The New York Review of Books, 9 Nov. 2020
• Old English poetry takes its shape from its metrical patterns and the alliteration of stressed syllables.
  — Irina Dumitrescu, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• His calls were filled with energy, passion and punchy phrases, often featuring alliteration, and his demeanor and tone would ebb and flow along with the Blazers’ ups and downs.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive.com, 12 July 2019
• The fairy even hovers over Harbart’s suicide, and a similar lighter touch informs the prose, enlivened by assonance and alliteration.
  — John Domini, chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• Thabiso grabbed the tablet before Likotsi could continue with her horrific attempts at alliteration.
  — Alyssa Cole, Cosmopolitan, 2 Aug. 2017
• After a cleansing regurgitation brought on by my alliteration, B-Lee gave me the greenlight.
  — Eliza Gauger, WIRED, 17 May 2007
• The cameras stayed focused largely on the speakers and the speeches, including a young poet whose words tied together a teeming multitude of ideas and themes with the sinews of inner rhyme, alliteration and associative images.
  — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2021
• The new sisters will have something in common with Prue, Piper, Phoebe, and Paige however—alliteration.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 20 Apr. 2018
• At first glance, the alliteration of Seaborn-Sheeran looks like an obvious reference to her dad’s musical and lyrical leanings.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 3 Sep. 2020
• This is really the writer Stan Lee’s fault, but Strange can’t speak without racking up frequent-alliteration points.
  — Dana Jennings, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2016
• There's a certain three-word alliteration that evokes a strong response in the soccer community: soccer-specific stadium.
  — Kevin Johnston, Indianapolis Star, 30 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 20 Mar 2024