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limerick

noun

Definition of limerick

as in sonnet

a humorous rhyming composition of five lines She recited an old limerick which elicited guffaws from the crowd

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Recent Examples of limerick They were trained to repeat dirty jokes and limericks about Ed Gein and Jeffrey Dahmer to customers. — Rachel Hale, USA Today, 10 July 2025 There’s a person writing beautiful custom poems that are sort of dirty limericks. — Emily Leibert, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2024 Instead, what we’re served feels more like dirty limericks delivered at an excruciating pace by a bore with bad breath. — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for limerick

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Noun

People can and should be skeptical about the sonnets written about starting NFL quarterbacks every offseason, when no one is getting sacked and almost everyone looks good.

— Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 30 July 2026
The conventions ground the writing as meter and rhyme steady a sonnet.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026

Definition of sonnet

Noun

Director Ivan Uryvskyi is candid about how the play recasts the ancient poem’s themes of return and those trapped in exile and captivity.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026
In another poem, Martial suggests that a writer seeking fame should copy his works on the toilet walls for all to read.

— Andrew Coletti, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of poem

Noun

The rhyme between her graceful form and the sculpture’s anatomy underscores the clip’s unmistakably erotic frisson.

— Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 16 Aug. 2026
Still her story inspired countless macabre tales, including the grisly playground rhyme that is heard in the trailer.

— Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of rhyme

Noun

In true Richards’ fashion, of course, Kyle transfers her distress into throwing yet another one of her overwrought white parties, whose guest list is filled with a caravan of beloved names in the Bravo-verse.

— Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2026
The Marília-verse will span more than the doc and biopic, Priolli adds.

— Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2026

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