VERSE in a Sentence

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For VERSE, below is one of 92 sentences:
The old restless moodiness had again filled his breast as it had done on the night of the party, but had not found an outlet in verse.

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 Meanings and Examples of VERSE
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verse
 n.  a piece of poetry
Classic Sentence: (74 in 5 pages)
1  There are maxims in this writer," answered Pococurante, "from which a man of the world may reap great benefit, and being written in energetic verse they are more easily impressed upon the memory.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXV
2  He left behind him five or six very curious manuscripts; among others, a dissertation on this verse in Genesis, In the beginning, the spirit of God floated upon the waters.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO...
3  It is to be noted that the age of periphrase in verse was the age of crudities in prose.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—LUC-ESPRIT
4  in making a piesse of verse to pay you my tribute of gratitude.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS
5  It has already been put into verse.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS ATTACKED
6  This verse, into which the terrible enchantress threw her whole soul, completed the trouble which had seized the heart of the young officer.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 53 CAPTIVITY: THE SECOND DAY
7  They crashed into the second verse and Scarlett, singing with the rest, heard the high sweet soprano of Melanie mounting behind her, clear and true and thrilling as the bugle notes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  Her voice was joined by Rhett's excellent bass, and as they went into the second verse those on the porch breathed more easily, though Heaven knew it was none too cheery a song, either.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  She had left a city which sat up nights to talk of universal transition; of European revolution, guild socialism, free verse.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
10  Heyward was fain to wait until the verse was ended; when, seeing David relieving himself from the spectacles, and replacing the book, he continued.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
11  At the end of what might be called each verse he made a pause, by raising a note louder and longer than common, that was peculiarly suited to the sentiment just expressed.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
12  The old restless moodiness had again filled his breast as it had done on the night of the party, but had not found an outlet in verse.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
13  He had learnt what little he knew of the laws of Latin verse from a ragged book written by a Portuguese priest.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
14  There were so many different moods and impressions that he wished to express in verse.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
15  He felt the rhythm of the verse about him in the room.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  "How now, brown cow, browsing in the green, green grass." I remember lines of verse that I came across while I browse through the poetry section of bookstore.
2  Although I have written all sorts of poetry over the years, I have a definite predilection for occasional verse.
3  We enjoy Dorothy Parker's verse for its wry wit.
4  While the Duchess sang the second verse of the song, she kept tossing the baby violently up and down.
5  "Well, I'd hardly finished the first verse," said the Hatter, "when the Queen jumped up and bawled out, he's murdering the time! Off with his head!"
6  I have been moved to write a few lines of verse.
7  His book was in parts written in verse.
8  Let's sing the last verse again.
9  His verse has the sing - song rhythm of a poetaster.
10  Bill sang the verses and everyone joined in the chorus.
11  Tom sang the verses and everybody joined in chorus.
12  I'll sing the verses and I'd like you all to join in the chorus.
13  Caroline sang two verses and the chorus of her song.
14  Here are a couple of verses written in cryptic rhyme from some of my currently published books.
15  However, they worried through, and each got his reward -- in small blue tickets, each with a passage of Scripture on it; each blue ticket was pay for two verses of the recitation.