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rhyming

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verb

variants also riming
present participle of rhyme

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of rhyming
Verb
Henry Holland’s racy, rhyming T-shirts were once the hottest item in the fashion world. Ashley Baker, Air Mail, 1 Nov. 2025 Especially love the rapid-fire rhyming shout-outs to some of the fair's finer delicacies. Piet Levy, jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2025 He’s become known for rhyming in hushed tones over melancholy production, a sound that’s birthed an entire wing of like-minded indie rappers. Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025 Algorithms for Toddlers is a whole semester of undergraduate algorithms condensed into 14 illustrated pages with rhyming couplets. Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025 Told in rhyming verse, the story follows Mia and her mommy on their Saturday morning trip to the grocery store. Essence, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rhyming
Adjective
  • These topics aren’t inherently popular with millennials and Gen Z, but agronejo has helped to draw in a younger audience by incorporating electronic beats and drawing from baile funk, a popular rhythmic form born in Brazil’s predominantly Black working-class neighborhoods in the 1980s.
    Carolina Abbott Galvão, The Dial, 6 Jan. 2026
  • To simulate life, the AlveoliX system uses rhythmic three-dimensional stretching.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 1 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • When aftershock data is available, the corresponding maps and charts include earthquakes within 100 miles and seven days of the initial quake.
    William B. Davis, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
  • To backers of the cuts, the savings reflect state efforts to blunt Colorado’s affordability crisis, especially as home valuations — and corresponding tax bills — skyrocketed following the pandemic.
    Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Marayrasu, his first collection of stories to receive an English translation, expands his reach, introducing readers to his tough yet richly poetic world.
    Tiffany Kelly, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Jan. 2026
  • As Jaclyn and Kate wax poetic about a dream vacation that never happened, Laurie’s weary, silent glances seem to tee up an explosive confrontation.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The winners will be announced on February 16 at a gala event at the historic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, coinciding with the foundation’s think-tank event, The World Forum on the Future of Democracy, AI/Tech and Humankind.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Reader's Digest named Route 66 one of the best places to travel in 2026, coinciding with the highway's centennial.
    Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 6 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Enrollment is a better funding metric because schools have to plan for the number of students who sign up, not the number who show up, said Troy Flint, spokesman for the California School Boards Association.
    CalMatters, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Roku will be the first major streamer to use measurement firm iSpot‘s Outcomes at Scale metric as the companies look to improve targeting for advertisers.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 6 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Nothing spoils a vacation faster than an ill-fitting pair of shoes.
    Michelle Baricevic, Travel + Leisure, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The Kiss of the Spider Woman star, 56, wore a form-fitting gown with a sheer top that put her toned abs on full display.
    Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Svelte yet heavy, Clipse’s latest sees all their phonetic and poetical gifts rendered to subtly maximal effect, with their lithe vocals cresting Pharrell’s glossy surfaces like snowfall.
    Peter A. Berry, Variety, 11 July 2025
  • Through the map, like the ship, Pace argues, time, space, and place are linked to cultural, personal, poetical, and political memory.
    Abby Clayton, JSTOR Daily, 29 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The company is also conducting power-on tests of its first FAA-conforming aircraft.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 12 Dec. 2025
  • By County Set by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) each year and based on home values, conforming loan limits are typically used to determine maximum loan amounts for many mortgage types.
    Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 26 Nov. 2025

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“Rhyming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rhyming. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.

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