How To Use Alliterative In A Sentence
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The second, with its mixture of monosyllables and disyllables - listen, walking, chamber - sustains the alliterative flourish of Melting melodious words.
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Her campaign slogan, "a president for the people", was pleasantly alliterative but empty.
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Once I chased the rainbow's end on horseback" he writes in another alliteratively-titled poem, "Exercise in Excess" and there is something of that quest in many pieces of work, the rainbow being poetry itself.
Archive 2010-02-01
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Other favorite words in shampoo promotion were the shimmering and alliterative shine and sheen, which along with silky reminded consumers that hair mucked up by soap scum was now a thing of the past.
The English Is Coming!
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Of course, being the first story arc after the One More Day silliness, this arc is going to have to live up to some stringent standards, like whether this story's quality was contingent upon it being a single Spider-Man (which is questionable, as the best aspects of this comic were the old-fashioned superhero stuff and the return of the supporting cast - neither of which hinged on Peter being married) and forcing the new potential love interest to be compared instantly to Mary Jane, which is a tough comparison for a new character, although Carlie Cooper hold up pretty well, I think (she even has an alliterative name!) as the nerdy, yet attractive, police scientist roommate/best friend of Harry Osborn's new girlfriend.
The Amazing Spider-Man #546-548 Review | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
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The poems are alliterative, disjunctive, unpunctuated, fabular, and also political, based as they are on maps (thus, ‘Legend’) and their borders and flags.
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In the course of an hour this guy must have spoken 42,000 words, many thousand being Shakespeare quotes and alliterative adjectives describing his philosophy, his past as an actor and his experiences as a WWII British navy man.
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I asked them to write two sentences of alliterative art criticism.
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I'm just back from a blog break (after taking courses in alliterative prose ... just kidding).
Still here ...
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`Parsifal" became alliterative in his self-condemnation, the words `treachery", `treason", `turncoat" and `traitor" frequently on his lips.
LOHENGRIN
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the early Norse poets wrote alliteratively
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Or any one of several other alliteratively animalian avenues?
Globe and Mail
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Coco has alliterative and assonantal qualities that also make it memorable from an aural standpoint.
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White's lyricism, sometimes reminiscent of Jean Toomer's sentence fragments and poetic repetition, and her metaphorical and alliterative use of language make her fiction almost indistinguishable from her poetry.
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bewildered by the old go-as-you-please liberty of alliterative rhythm
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The two-man chorus is lent an alliterative, Anglo-Saxon form reminiscent of Heaney's Beowulf.
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The spirited romance generally known as the alliterative _Morte Arthure_ must also belong here, though the MS. itself is of later date.
English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day
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Spenser begins the stanza with an alliterative play upon ‘joyous’ and ‘just’ which lightens the atmosphere after the sober and tense portrayal of the knight's penance, while emphasising the worth of Charissa's lesson.
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The poems are alliterative, disjunctive, unpunctuated, fabular, and also political, based as they are on maps and their borders and flags.
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David Myers' novel The Bohemian Bourgeois is the true inheritor of that line, his protagonist's name appropriately alliterative, his behaviour equally roguish.
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‘The prejudicial effect would far outweigh the probative value,’ he added alliteratively.
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Each new translation of Gawain's travails places the translator in conflict with the original text - how to recreate the narrative's pace, the alliterative swatches of language, the tale's uncanny aura?
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To sum up alliteratively: expletives extended endurance.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fact that Trumpeldor and his associates have no problems whatsoever in talking about Gentiles amongst themselves, on this site, in the very same way that a Southern gentleman might refer to Jews and others at the yearly (think alliteratively forward and backward at this moment) Klan gathering is, in my opinion, highly offensive.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Tween is very obviously an artificial, consumer-culture-created construct (he said alliteratively), but since we're living the years here, I always thought it was more like 10-12.
MIND MELD: Is Young Adult SF/F Too Explicit?
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We hear iambs, trochees, Virgil's hexameters, the Norse alliterative lines, each arranged in their various couplets, quatrains, choric stanzas, gnomic verses, and much more besides.
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Gabbling alliteratively over speeded-up footage of dramatic night skies?
Times, Sunday Times
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I myself was named alliteratively because my father always wanted to be able to step outside on a warm summer night and holler through cupped hands, ‘Come hither Heather Hamilton.’
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All of the verbs in this excerpt are polysyllabic, strategically alliterative, and speak to various kinds of action that jolt the reader.
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A magnificent performer on the page, she can flip, mid-paragraph, into alliterative mode to underline a point: ‘The world is flux, flow and fruitfully fermenting doubt.’
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I am, of course, talking about the new More 4 show, the alliteratively catchy, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
Razzle dazzle 'em
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The most accessible (and alliterative) source of finer-grained parallelism in mainstream server applications is sorting, searching, selection, and summarizing of data sets.
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The novel begins with Warner Williams, an alliteratively named stringer for Esquire debating with editor Harold Hayes about the reporter's article on a B-movie adaptation of "The Raven.
Brian Joseph Davis: A Horrifying Satire of Hollywood Returns
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Hometowns are often used by sports writers in creating alliterative nicknames.
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They must each compose a poem in strict alliterative metre.
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Much of this poetry fell squarely in the northern European tradition, and the literary revival of the north-west and the Midlands in the fourteenth century was mainly of alliterative, unrhymed verse.
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A planter of about thirty years of age, clad in buckskin shortclothes, sat smoking his pipe, after his noonday meal, in the wide entry that ran through his double log house from the south side to the north, the house being of the sort called alliteratively "two pens and a passage.
Duffels
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Their first mistake, obviously, is not calling it football - alliteratively, 'football' and 'fighting' go together rather nicely.
The Sun
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Within the unfolding of Aoxomoxoa, (a title alliteratively and reflexively evoking the very word "axis" itself!), the flora-like tendrils of childhood experience are anchored, and then extended spoke-like through the flights and journeys of life's passage.
Larbear's Aoxomoxoa Thesis
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Gawain is written in a newer form for the time, known as the ‘bob and wheel,’ in which each strophe of verse ends with a five line rhymed tag, which is also alliterative in its structure.
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Do they manage to translate the names of the Endless into other languages alliteratively?
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They wouldn't get past its lacily alliterative first line — "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins" — with its carefully balanced pairings ( "light/fire," "life/loins").
Lolita At 50, And Forever Young
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Repeating the word ‘field’ in the second clause, however, Warner balances it with form, alliteratively cinching together the natural ‘field’ with its scientific meanings.
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It means if we want to keep eating mussels marinara, clams casino, or other alliterative seafood dishes, we'd better kick our carbon-emitting fossil fuels habit right quick.
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Anyway, someone whose main talents seem to be self-promotion and coining alliterative phrases should not be calling others trolls.
Meeting at the fringes « BuzzMachine
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Both of these poems contain alliterative sequences of unrelated words.
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They must each compose a poem in strict alliterative metre.
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alliterative verse
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The attempt to place Thomas in the Welsh bardic tradition because of his alliterative style largely fails since the poet himself disputed it.
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Nelson and Napoleon were celebrated - and appropriately alliterative - antagonists, though they never confronted each other directly in battle.
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As Gunderson alliteratively put it, there were other better explanations of a more pronounced class identification in this period than ‘Nash's cumbersome contrivance of class consciousness arising in poverty.’
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A few passages of Irish heroic poetry that survive from the prehistoric period employ an alliterative line very much like the one used by Old English poets.
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The website TheyWorkForYou reveals that he "has used three-word alliterative phrases eg 'she sells seashells' 381 times in debates – well above average amongst Lords," it says.
Diary
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The phrase itself is both alliterative and euphonious, and it's certainly not a random adjective-noun combination like we've become used to with band names; furnaces have flames in them, and thus they are fiery.
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The stately and complex narrative is composed in the alliterative metre common to most early Germanic poetry, and is enhanced by rich description, decorous speeches, and moral reflection.
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Over time that had been corrupted to the affectionate and alliterative Wheezy.
A CONVICTION OF GUILT
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Of course, being the first story arc after the One More Day silliness, this arc is going to have to live up to some stringent standards, like whether this story's quality was contingent upon it being a single Spider-Man (which is questionable, as the best aspects of this comic were the old-fashioned superhero stuff and the return of the supporting cast - neither of which hinged on Peter being married) and forcing the new potential love interest to be compared instantly to Mary Jane, which is a tough comparison for a new character, although Carlie Cooper hold up pretty well, I think (she even has an alliterative name!) as the nerdy, yet attractive, police scientist roommate/best friend of Harry Osborn's new girlfriend.
The Amazing Spider-Man #546-548 Review | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
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But if I don't at least attempt to get a solid five and a half hours of sleep tonight, I will become the Gorgon Journalist of Georgia -- which, although it has its alliterative merits (is "alliterative" a word, by the way?
Bluemeany Diary Entry
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Mumblix Grumph, as much as I’d like to see Bush and Cheyney in chains, (appealingly alliterative is it not) I do not think that Hillary is the answer to the countries problems.
It’s about trust « BuzzMachine
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They must each compose a poem in strict alliterative metre.
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The author roundly silenced his critics when the densely illustrated, alliterative animal alphabet book sold 1.3 million copies worldwide.
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Much of this poetry fell squarely in the northern European tradition, and the literary revival of the north-west and the Midlands in the fourteenth century was mainly of alliterative, unrhymed verse.
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E's pumpkin poem (first they "brainstormed" the alliterative words, she told me) (she did not say alliterative)
In Which I Unabashedly Show Off My Daughter
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The attempt to place Thomas in the Welsh bardic tradition because of his alliterative style largely fails since the poet himself disputed it.
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In this it contrasts with the accentual four-stress line of Old English and Middle English alliterative verse, in which the caesura is expected to fall in the middle of the line.
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Such methods went on to form the basis of the first written English poetry, Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse.
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Tooth-ache, tragedy and top notes share a mask of facial palsy in this alliterative world.
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Genocchio subdivides the book by a series of alliterative section headings and short preambles but it is generally less than apparent why pieces are included in
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In the Heliand, a ninth-century Old Saxon alliterative verse retelling of the gospel, Christ teaches his disciples the secret runes that God spoke in the beginning when he called the world into being.
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All of the verbs in this excerpt are polysyllabic, strategically alliterative, and speak to various kinds of action that jolt the reader.
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We hear iambs, trochees, Virgil's hexameters, the Norse alliterative lines, each arranged in their various couplets, quatrains, choric stanzas, gnomic verses, and much more besides.
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Back from the optometrist, eyes dilated, and things closer or farther away than the fixed focus are fuzzy, he said alliteratively.
A Quiet Night in the Recliner ...
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Southwell appears to have chosen a vernacular, alliterative style not only as a repudiation of contemporary poetic practice but also because such a style makes a statement about continuity and patriotism.
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The title Aoxomoxoa (explored later), is very possibly pronounced with the 'x' as an alliterative 'z', and thus "... zoa"; or Latin, for "life" ... as in
Larbear's Aoxomoxoa Thesis
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(Old Play), ‘hoddy-doddy’ (Ben Jonson); while of alliterative might be instanced these: ‘skimble-skamble’, ‘bibble-babble’ (both in
English Past and Present
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We hear iambs, trochees, Virgil's hexameters, the Norse alliterative lines, each arranged in their various couplets, quatrains, choric stanzas, gnomic verses, and much more besides.
