Examples of couplet in a Sentence
a poem made up of six couplets
a couplet of statues flank the entrance to the church
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Her rooster crowed in rhyming couplets and used some naughty words to describe the master’s digestive system.
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Perin Gürel, The Conversation, 19 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
One couplet in, your breathing will calm, and your mind will clear.
—Patricia Steckler, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2025
One rhyming couplet instructs a young man to get an adze, or ax, when the Pleiades are overhead.
—Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2025
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Perin Gürel, The Conversation, 19 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
One couplet in, your breathing will calm, and your mind will clear.
—Patricia Steckler, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2025
One rhyming couplet instructs a young man to get an adze, or ax, when the Pleiades are overhead.
—Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for couplet
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“Couplet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/couplet. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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couplet
noun
cou·plet
ˈkəp-lət 
: two lines of verse that follow in order and form a unit
especially
: two rhyming lines of the same length
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