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
  • Want to see how alliteration makes its mark on the world?
    USA TODAY, 9 June 2023
  • But the real reason had less to do with alliteration and more to do with the almighty.
    Shoaib Daniyal, Quartz India, 4 June 2019
  • If there's a little alliteration to go off of, all the better.
    Robert Cocuzzo, Town & Country, 8 Mar. 2017
  • Props to the student who named him for taking alliteration to the next level.
    Joan Niesen, SI.com, 3 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And in early 2022, cronuts, but that’s just to fortify the alliteration.
    Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 9 Dec. 2021
  • For the past 15 months, it’s been my pleasure to bring you news, analysis, and an abundant amount of alliteration each day via Data Sheet.
    Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • If that isn't a beautiful thought, at least give me props for my alliteration skillz.
    Tess Koman, Cosmopolitan, 28 Oct. 2015
  • 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 new sisters will have something in common with Prue, Piper, Phoebe, and Paige however—alliteration.
    Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 20 Apr. 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
  • The description was precise, and the phonetic voice-leading was musical, the A sound carrying from faint to pale, which broke the F alliteration just enough, and then the strong through-tone of like, lights, midnight . . .
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2017
  • The opening alliteration is some of Pac’s best lyrical display.
    cleveland.com, 16 June 2017
  • Priyanka Chopra's dog @diariesofdiana Looks like alliteration runs in the family!
    Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 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 effort doesn’t just focus on caterpillars, but who can resist a good alliteration?
    Molly Schools, Discover Magazine, 12 May 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • After a cleansing regurgitation brought on by my alliteration, B-Lee gave me the greenlight.
    Eliza Gauger, WIRED, 17 May 2007
  • Maybe use some alliteration and call it Paramount Pro or Paramount Premium?
    Angela Watercutter, Wired, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Often, lead singer Danielle Haim breaks words into a cluster of onomatopoeias delivered rapid-fire, making sentences sound like tongue twisters even without alliteration.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 7 July 2017

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