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"Verse" in a Sentence (21 examples)
Give me chapter and verse.
He wrote several plays in verse.
He gave me chapter and verse on how bears pass the winter.
He translated the verse into English.
Everybody knows the line “The boy didn't crack under interrogation”, but nowadays many people don’t know the continuation: it is a verse about a boy who died, having refused to renounce his Komsomol membership.
‘Without burning thirst, what is the brook for?’ Arkadź Kulašoŭ asks in his verse.
I'm astonished, wall, that you haven't collapsed into ruins, since you're holding up the weary verse of so many poets.
An epigram is a short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterized by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.
In everyday life no one speaks in verse.
The next verse is even more touching.
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Restoration literature is well known for its carefully constructed verse.
The restrictions of verse have steadily been relaxed over time.
Note the shift in tone between the first verse and the second.
It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.
playing on pipes of corn and versing love
He versed us in the finer points of category theory.
Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.[…]Next day she[…]tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.
When teams play now they "verse" each other. "Who did you verse?" (Forget "whom". It's long dead.) "We're versing you next." Pity the Latin scholar who might feel the loss of "versus" more keenly than many.
If you've got Onslaught let me know and I'll verse you.
Ariel is worried for the race, because she is versing her best competitor, and she really wants to win.
There was an ODI last year where the Blackcaps versed Ireland, and we almost lost, but we didn't.
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