limerick

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Recent Examples of limerick In countless interviews, Joel has mused that the waltzing chord progression is monotonous and the lyrics akin to limericks. Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024 Until then, feel free to send me your best limericks at mlunsford@tennessean.com. Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 15 Feb. 2024 Like Andy Warhol’s soup cans, Slaughterhouse-Five, with its jokes, drawings, risqué limericks and flying saucers, blurs the line between high and low culture. Susan Farrell, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2023 The team started with sonnets, then went on to limericks. Quanta Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023 See All Example Sentences for limerick
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Noun
  • Seamus Heaney’s sonnets about Northern Ireland in the 1970s and Annie Ernaux’s memoirs of France in the 1960s propose indirect but approachable ways of engaging with personal and national history.
    Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
  • When women and men speaking Cervantes’ tongue are sent to concentration camps like the South Florida Detention Facility or CECOT, then what use is a sonnet?
    Ed Simon September 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Still, such men recorded the poems, songs, myths, stories and place names of Tonga, and without such records, the stories of (mythical?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Same-sex desire also appears throughout Virgil’s pastoral poems, the Eclogues.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Nicolle closed out her routine with a rhyme that won her the one-on-one date that night.
    Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
  • But in the four years since then, he’s gone to jail, fallen out with his former partner-in-rhyme Gunna and made more headlines for being at the center of public messiness than for anything he’s done with his music.
    Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The basilica was temporarily shut down on Monday, Oct. 13, and prayers and psalms were said as holy water was showered on the altar, according to the outlet.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Revered by all three Abrahamic religions, the psalms were often recited, read, and sung in routine worship.
    Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Neither built around the traditional J-pop structure of A-melody/B-melody/chorus nor modeled after the Western verse/chorus format, the track’s composition feels innovative — offering a glimpse into an entirely new dimension of pop.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 16 Oct. 2025
  • But when explicitly asked about the verse and his thoughts on Jones’ comments, Nas completely sidesteps the latter.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Limerick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/limerick. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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