How To Use Alliterate In A Sentence
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(Like Chesterton, I alliterate too much; and for the same reason, which is that I will not knock off using the right word and seek a feeble substitute, merely because too many of the right words begin with the same letter of the alphabet.)
Quotha: A comment upon the procedures of the CBO
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Make it catchy of course, but rhyme, pun, and alliterate at your own risk.
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By nonreader, we met alliterate — someone who can read perfectly well, but prefers other forms of communication and art over text.
Take the CLAT « educating alice
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I think I might email the programme and ask them to choose something that alliterates otherwise that's going to irritate me for goodness knows how many years.
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Perhaps you could give us the some sort of creatively alliterate Christmas film list.
TEN of TERROR #9: The Shining « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
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| Reply being the notorious nitpicker (and alliterate to boot!) that I am.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Today’s Comic: B-MEN
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Justice Peter Zarella, for example, made a thoughtful and alliterate injunction: "The ancient definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman has its basis in biology, not bigotry.
Kit Gallant: Gay Marriage Comes to Connecticut
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Here's Reed Richards and I do love those alliterated comic book names or as he's also called, Mr. Fantastic.
Month of MARVEL: Day 13
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That weekend, we (two couples, three offspring) set out for Bang Kachao -- or Bang Kra Jao, as it is alternatively alliterated -- a sprawling island whose name means "region of egrets.
One Hour Out: Bangkok
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And I'm not talking about Messianic Jews, otherwise known by their catchier and conveniently alliterated title "Jews for Jesus.
Kate Fridkis: Interfaith Families: Can You Be Jewish and Christian at the Same Time?
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Every stressed word is like an ice ax, trying to gain purchase, while the alliterated "sh" — "sharp shapes, glacier -/scraped faces" — enacts the horrible sound of an object sliding down sheer ice.
The Reluctant Poet Laureate
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You'll hear how the stanza rounds off the sequence of long, unrhymed lines with a bob-and-wheel, a series of shorter, rhyming lines that also alliterate.
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I wouldn't usually go all regional dialect on you, but "kumara" alliterates so much better than "sweet potato".
Archive 2006-04-01
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Canadian commentator Colby Cosh (hey it's Sunday, I'll alliterate if I want) has posted a quick thought on the comparative welfare recipient counts between Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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(What you meant, I assume, was "alliterate", as in "bobby bounced a bright blue ball before bounding back to billy's")
Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
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Pastors on Patrol" reminds me of Hell's Grannies and "Irish Send Fast Filly to Feature in Festival" is too lyrical to be anything but an alliterate contrivance.
Archive 2008-09-01
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I was inclined toward something Latinate or Italianate, and I liked the fact that Flavia alliterated with my new blog's name.
Archive 2008-01-01
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Evelyn with her kit-set life and her alliterated offspring.
None of the Above
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Scanning verse is infinitely more complex that we lead students to realize (lest they despair), so I would say that the meter of the line is perfectly acceptable OE verse, though, as you point out, it doesn't alliterate.
The Poetics of Tolkien Europop
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Nicely alliterated, and there's that obligatory masculine presidential balls-display, but it says exactly nothing about how to recognize and identify defeat.
Stan Goff: Getting Off the Road
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I will also pitch the other more wordy, alliterate, and somewhat baser title that came to mind:
Title help, please « BuzzMachine
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The title should change every time a new poet is appointed and should alliterate or rhyme with the name of the new holder of the title.
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This is the day of rest, the day we give the alliterated weekdays the shove and simply blog on something intelligent.
Archive 2008-06-01
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They also - and this is when you know a cricket-writer is really moved - began to alliterate, so Jayasuriya rapidly became the Marauder of Matara.
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‘What I expected’ is an adroit compromise between the impulses to form and to freedom: ‘twist’ fails to rhyme convincingly with ‘pass,’ but in that failure assonates and alliterates with ‘questions.’
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The oddly alliterated Fervent Fray of Fraternal Fervor, written and directed by Thomas Thompson, is the second festival offering.
