RHYTHM in a Sentence

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For RHYTHM, below is one of 42 sentences:
Lena moved without exertion, rather indolently, and her hand often accented the rhythm softly on her partner's shoulder.

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 Meanings and Examples of RHYTHM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rhythm
 n.  a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  There were graybeards older than her father trying to step jauntily along in the needle- fine rain to the rhythm of the fife and drum corps.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  But the hooves slowed down in a startlingly natural way to the rhythm of a walk and there was the measured scrunch-scrunch on the gravel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  Loren Wheeler, editor of the Dauntless, led the orchestra, with a ruler and a totally inaccurate sense of rhythm.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  He tapped his foot to the rhythm; he looked normal and reassured.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  The carriage squeaked in rhythm.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  As she let the ether drip, nervously trying to keep the rhythm that Kennicott had indicated, Carol stared at her husband with the abandon of hero-worship.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
7  They strolled with the half-dancing gait of lovers, kicking their feet out sideways or shuffling a dragging jig, and the concrete walk sounded to the broken two-four rhythm.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  Lena moved without exertion, rather indolently, and her hand often accented the rhythm softly on her partner's shoulder.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
9  A sudden burst of music issued from the ark, the prelude of a waltz: and when the side door closed again the listener could hear the faint rhythm of the music.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
10  The rhythm died out at once; the cry of his heart was broken.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
11  He felt the rhythm of the verse about him in the room.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
12  He turned back the way he had come, the rhythm of the engine pounding in his ears.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
13  He halted under a tree and allowed the rhythm to die away.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
14  Observe the rhythm of his native woodnotes wild.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
15  Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something--an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I had heard somewhere a long time ago.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  Drums are basic to African rhythm.
2  The drummer beat out a steady rhythm while we marched.
3  He beat out a jazz rhythm on the drums.
4  Tidying the house in the morning fell into an easy rhythm.
5  She hit the ball so hard that her opponent had no chance to establish any rhythm in her game.
6  Metropolitan residents are used to fast rhythm.
7  Imagine you're lying on a beach, listening to the steady rhythm of waves lapping the shore.
8  I can't dance to music without a good rhythm.
9  The drums and double bass usually form the rhythm section of a jazz group.
10  He had no sense of rhythm whatsoever.
11  His verse has the sing - song rhythm of a poetaster.
12  It's a funky sort of rhythm.
13  The task now was to restore the country to its usual rhythm of life, she said.
14  Rock 'n' roll has got nothing on these African rhythms.
15  He describes his latest record as 'a synthesis of African and Latin rhythms'.