How To Use Nursery rhyme In A Sentence
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‘Vegetarians’ who eat fish are demi-vegetarians, i.e., they won't eat moo-cows or baa-lambs but they eat fish because there weren't any nice nursery rhymes about fish.
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Remember the old nursery rhyme?
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Rehoboth said old Deborah was renewing her youth; for she had been known to laugh and croon, and more than once purse up her old lips to sing a snatch of nursery rhyme -- a thing which in the past she had denounced as tending to 'mak' childer hush't wi 'th' songs o 'sin.'
Lancashire Idylls (1898)
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Also known as a tuffet, a name that recalls the nursery rhyme and images of Miss Muffet eating her curds and whey, its image was once old-fashioned.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
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The concrete utterance of a nursery rhyme inaugurates a certain creativity, and absorbs the attention of the child into the world of how sound is made.
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With such a restricted musical language his ideal subjects should be train timetables or nursery rhymes.
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It does so with a pretelevision, prevideogame sensibility, and also by embracing a view of gender that has been unfashionable in recent decades: that frogs and snails and puppy dogs’ tails are more than lines in a nursery rhyme, and that boys are by nature hard-wired differently than girls.
The Dangerous Book for Boys « Reading Copy
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With his voice kept in condition by singing loads of nursery rhymes, those concerts will be a doddle.
The Sun
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Its melody is not unlike a nursery rhyme, and the message is like reading fortune cookie after fortune cookie.
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Page was familiar with verse - especially the cadence and rhythm of the nursery rhyme - and with the idea of creating one's own books.
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Ken Campbell's slapstick take on the nursery rhyme for Unicorn Theatre bears the old rogue's unmistakable signatures of anarchic humour and lurking menace.
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Very few children, for example, are now familiar with nursery rhymes, which not only fuel the imagination but form an introduction to scansion, rhythm and interesting vocabulary.
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She hit the headlines last month when an advertisement punning on a nursery rhyme was banned for being likely to harm children.
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And she says those who "bowdlerise" children's literature do have good intentions, but they are missing the cultural and historical point of nursery rhymes and fairytales.
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Every language had its stock of lullabies, nursery rhymes, nonsense verses, fairytales and simple stories of light and delight.
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With lively illustrations, catchy, nasty nursery rhymes and loads of mischief, this celebration of badness is a complete hit in our family.
Getting Wrong Right: Badness for Beginners
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Nursery rhyme was the theme of the second event, and a fairyland was brought alive on stage for this.
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I discussed negotiation skills in business schools, sang nursery rhymes in kindergartens and lectured on contemporary British culture at numerous universities for the British Council.
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Remember the old nursery rhyme?
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Then Diana, her daughter's hand clutched in her own, began slowly to intone the words of a nursery rhyme.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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(The picture of the little Malay boy gazing out of the window of his kampong house to illustrate Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in a book of nursery rhymes, for example.)
MPH Celebrates Its Big Birthday
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Hide under the duvet singing nursery rhymes to yourself?
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There'll be prancing in the streets – and a touch of Wicker Man whimsy – as Banbury's annual procession sees fine ladies and four-legged brutes resurrecting the famous Ride A Cock-Horse nursery rhyme.
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I hated playing musical scales and those stupid nursery rhymes set to music that piano students had to play, but I guess Dad marked me down as a loser in music, too.
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Stories ran about her for months in the national press and poems and nursery rhymes echoed around the North East about her.
The Sun
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Lavanya Mani creates a fictitious trading map of kalamkari and embroidered cushions depicting a fearsome spider inspired by a nursery rhyme she had learnt as a child, hinting at the grooming of a girl for the marriage market.
The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage
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One of the last things she was able to do, in fact, was to sing nursery rhymes with her granddaughter.
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I don't even remember the words to nursery rhymes, let alone which ones are about the plague and which are about the ascension of King Charles II.
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The younger children put on a play, entitled ‘The Wonderful Field’, while the others sang songs and recited nursery rhymes.
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With his voice kept in condition by singing loads of nursery rhymes, those concerts will be a doddle.
The Sun
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The disjointed rhythms, making music with whatever material lie at hand; the sing-song barrage of lyrics with a nursery rhyme quality-there is a an experimental British pastoralness here, like Barrett, Julian Cope, Nick Drake, and The Incredible String Band, with mentions of gardens and forests, mountains and seas.
The Daily News - News
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The simplicity reminds one of a nursery rhyme, but the melodies and chords are dissonant, insidious.
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With his voice kept in condition by singing loads of nursery rhymes, those concerts will be a doddle.
The Sun
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Take your little partner and dance and sing: anything from waltzes to tangos, nursery rhymes to blues and rock.
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With such a restricted musical language his ideal subjects should be train timetables or nursery rhymes.
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I have a special interest in folklore and collect nursery rhyme books.
Bibliophile essay contest - Entrant #12
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Such features are very prominent in nursery rhymes and ballads, where frequently pleasure lies in rhythm, incantation, and strangeness of image.
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Every language had its stock of lullabies, nursery rhymes, nonsense verses, fairytales and simple stories.
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Nursery rhymes or pop compilations will keep the children entertained.
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Take the Go Compare tenor, a cheery bulbous eejit warbling doggerel set to melodies so basic that the average nursery rhyme sounds like one of Sun Ra's more outre soundscapes by comparison.
The Hard Sell: Direct Line
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But Seely has to work with the less subtle meters of the nursery rhymes and other poems he parodies, such as dactylic and anapestic.
2007 June 17 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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So, too, do children love the rhyming, chanting, and alliteration of nursery rhymes.
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Hide under the duvet singing nursery rhymes to yourself?
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According to Maltese, animated cartoons began originally as picturized nursery rhymes for the movie houses.
Mike Maltese Speaks in 1960
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Hide under the duvet singing nursery rhymes to yourself?
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No, the march, the work song, the love lyric, the ballad, the sea chantey, the nursery rhyme, the limerick—those are the preeminent forms, and all those have four beats to them.
THE ANTHOLOGIST
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Then Diana, her daughter's hand clutched in her own, began slowly to intone the words of a nursery rhyme.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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Page was familiar with verse - especially the cadence and rhythm of the nursery rhyme - and with the idea of creating one's own books.
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The twin bedroom is particularly charming and is now a children's room with nursery rhyme wallpaper and decorative features.
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But soon enough, Lucy begins to hear and see things – such as decapitated heads laying next to her in bed and nursery rhymes about her actions years ago.
Strait-Jacket (1964)
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One of the last things she was able to do, in fact, was to sing nursery rhymes with her granddaughter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Is it because I'm just bored of nursery rhymes and these have easily remembered lyrics?
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With his voice kept in condition by singing loads of nursery rhymes, those concerts will be a doddle.
The Sun
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Remember the old nursery rhyme?
Times, Sunday Times
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With such a restricted musical language his ideal subjects should be train timetables or nursery rhymes.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of the last things she was able to do, in fact, was to sing nursery rhymes with her granddaughter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stories ran about her for months in the national press and poems and nursery rhymes echoed around the North East about her.
The Sun
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Such features are very prominent in nursery rhymes and ballads, where frequently pleasure lies in rhythm, incantation, and strangeness of image.
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Remember the old nursery rhyme?
Times, Sunday Times
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One of the last things she was able to do, in fact, was to sing nursery rhymes with her granddaughter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr. Adams read nursery rhymes aloud every night in an effort to "remap" his brain and was able to recover much of his speaking ability.
Foreign Accents, Alien Hands and Other Medical Oddities
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In 1954, a lovely collection of nursery rhymes made the mould for successors.
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Stories ran about her for months in the national press and poems and nursery rhymes echoed around the North East about her.
The Sun
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I wish that the middlebrow worshippers of the simple would read the nursery rhymes in the light of their original meaning!
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This stuff doesn't merely placate the listener with predictable, danceable nursery rhymes but lashes out and lacerates the eardrum relentlessly.
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Accentual verse has continued to flourish, however, in a wide range of popular songs, hymns, ballads, and nursery rhymes.
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More than 300 children, aged between four and seven, participated in different items including songs, nursery rhymes, playlets, story telling and fancy dress competition.
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The twin bedroom is particularly charming and is now a children's room with nursery rhyme wallpaper and decorative features.
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Next comes a travelling umbrella-mender, fagoted on the back like the man in the moon of the nursery rhyme-book.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852
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They listen to stories, memorize nursery rhymes, look at picture books and gain other experiences that prepare them to read.
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Stories ran about her for months in the national press and poems and nursery rhymes echoed around the North East about her.
The Sun
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To a sprog, they were kitted out as nursery rhyme characters and looked far better dressed than they did in their normal clothes.
TICKLED PINK
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As his first birthday came and went I was bursting with pride as he learned his alphabet, numbers and nursery rhymes.
The Sun