COUPLET in a Sentence

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Example sentences for COUPLET, such as:

1. There are couplets to be sung in four places.
2. To each discharge he retorted with a couplet.
3. A fifth bullet only succeeded in drawing from him a third couplet.
4. All that the bourgeois have to do is to bear themselves well, I'll sneeze them out subversive couplets.
5. The wild and tender accents with which Combeferre sang communicated to this couplet a sort of strange grandeur.

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 Meanings and Examples of COUPLET
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
couplet
 n.  two similar things; a pair; in poetry, a pair of lines with rhyming end words
Classic Sentence:
1  The wild and tender accents with which Combeferre sang communicated to this couplet a sort of strange grandeur.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON
2  A fifth bullet only succeeded in drawing from him a third couplet.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE
3  To each discharge he retorted with a couplet.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE
4  I went up to him as he was singing a love ditty and looking tenderly at a lady, and interrupted him exactly in the middle of the second couplet.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS
5  Joe recited this couplet with such manifest pride and careful perspicuity, that I asked him if he had made it himself.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
6  There are couplets to be sung in four places.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS
7  All that the bourgeois have to do is to bear themselves well, I'll sneeze them out subversive couplets.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II—GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH
Example Sentence:
1  Shoppers are buying red lanterns, scrolls with poetic couplets, paper cuttings and plush snake toys to express their best wishes for the Lunar New Year and decorate their homes.