rhyming 1 of 2

variants also riming

rhyming

2 of 2

verb

variants also riming
present participle of rhyme

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of rhyming
Verb
If the cheerily rhyming title about murder doesn’t quite do it for you, just Google what the posters look like. Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026 This long-suffering Knicks fan said his rationale for including the prognostication may have had more to do with rhyming than any actual belief. Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026 Ironically, this ideological anti-capitalism, in which criticality opposed complicity, derived its power by rhyming with the rise of the art market. Katy Siegel, Artforum, 2 June 2026 This time around, a serial stalker hunts down men and women alike, taunting them with videos filmed of them and rhyming texts, the detectives trying to track potential victims and save them before they’re killed. Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026 Sharon had submitted a dozen couplets about the virtues of stay-at-home motherhood, as well as a rhyming list of reasons to believe in God. Literary Hub, 11 May 2026 In rhyming verse, the WNBA star shares a message about the importance of effort and support. ABC News, 28 Apr. 2026 The song eventually gives way to rhyming dictionary phrases, building toward a half-climax that doesn’t quite land. Sameer Rao, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2026 As a young child Allen began writing and singing songs while riding in the car with her mother, who taught her about rhyming couplets. Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rhyming
Adjective
  • The microphones pick up the rhythmic thwack of leather on leather as Zizou executes a series of short passes with teammates.
    Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 11 July 2026
  • There is the rhythmic, at times monotonous pattern of the minor-league baseball season.
    Spencer Nusbaum, New York Times, 10 July 2026
Verb
  • Klimoska has been part of the Talents Sarajevo program at Sarajevo Film Festival, and the corresponding scheme at the Berlinale.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2026
  • Putnam notes that each vessel carries a distinct color corresponding to its stage of life—yellow for birth, red for growth and blue for rebirth.
    Anthony DeMarco, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Adjective
  • That bite and raw intensity produce some of the album’s standout moments, transmuting jungle’s physicality across a wide emotional range with poetic verve and Nia’s woody, vulnerable, yet strident timbre.
    Will Pritchard, Pitchfork, 20 July 2026
  • The filmmaker achieves that through poetic narration that anthropomorphizes home.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 July 2026
Verb
  • Concerns over public health, drug use, safety and the cost to emergency services have helped fuel local policies to build more shelters, coinciding with drops in the number of people living on the street.
    Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 23 July 2026
  • Nevertheless, shares of CrowdStrike and fellow Club cyber name Palo Alto Networks fell nearly 2% Wednesday, coinciding with a broader pullback in enterprise software stocks in the session.
    Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 22 July 2026
Adjective
  • Notably, this goals-prevented metric doesn’t account for the different number of shots a ’keeper faces.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 24 July 2026
  • Barker hopes this will turn culture from a soft concept into a metric leadership can be judged on.
    Sam Birchall, Fortune, 24 July 2026
Verb
  • That reality depends on localized AI fitting seamlessly into everyday devices — something that’s been a persistent engineering hurdle.
    Noelle Harff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2026
  • Opponents see both quarterbacks fitting well with their new schemes and play callers.
    Sam Khan Jr, New York Times, 24 July 2026
Adjective
  • There are ones who are more ideological, others more poetical.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 21 Jan. 2026
  • 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
Verb
  • These include completing the Critical Design Review (CDR) by the end of 2026, which will establish the certifiable design baseline for the aircraft and enable the production and testing of certification-conforming models.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 18 July 2026
  • Whenever there is irregular talent, someone capable of breaking their role’s conventions, there are arguments about conforming to orthodoxy.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 18 July 2026

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“Rhyming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rhyming. Accessed 27 Jul. 2026.

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