Synonym: chapter, division, jingle, measure, part, passage, poetry, rhyme, section. Antonym: prose. Similar words: oversee, adverse, reverse, diverse, converse, jersey, ever so, versus. Meaning: [vɜrs / vɜːs-] n. 1. literature in metrical form 2. a piece of poetry 3. a line of metrical text. v. 1. compose verses or put into verse 2. familiarize through thorough study or experience.
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61. His knowledge was real, and he documented it chapter and verse.
62. The play is written in verse, and several sections were intended to be sung.
63. A more expensive model recites a different Koranic verse at each hour.
64. And the verse is accordingly irregular and gnarled and yet sappy, far more like growing timber than like steel rails.
65. Coleridge had developed an apparently relaxed, but in fact extremely clever style of blank verse.
66. Verse is here the morally superior medium, but at least Boult redeems prose from its worst associations.
67. A more violent end meets an earlier pretender to verse, suitably violent as befits the rebel Jack Cade.
68. The verse sounds like a madrigal, the chorus like a party.
69. Their craftsmanship makes it clear that he took the business of composing verse and music very seriously indeed.
70. Whitley, a willowy former City banker, peppered his talk with literary bon mots and some distinctly fast verse.
71. And I could turn out imitative verse which expressed similar sentiments.
72. Intricate issues were summarized in a few phrases or reduced to a line of wretched verse....
73. A number of poets like boxing but, on the other side, only Muhammed Ali has ever liked verse.
74. This letter was prefixed to the second volume of Leapor's verse published in 1751.sentencedict.com
75. More literary verse usually has fewer levels of metrical organisation, thus allowing the poet a more flexible use of language.
76. To draw attention to the hospitality provided at his inn Freeth issued printed invitation cards, written in verse.
77. Yet somehow we must do it ... What an exquisite verse from Shelley you quoted.
78. I mean, during the verse of Symphony the kick drum pattern and bass line are totally locked.
79. Elizabeth Barrett Browning explained her own self-starvation in her verse novel Aurora Leigh.
80. Chris Caldwell explained the verse from Proverbs that was posted in Earnhardt's car during the fatal wreck.
81. No wonder that in that same verse Paul bids us be filled with all joy and peace in believing.
82. If I started to sing that verse Janir would sit up in bed and press his hand across my mouth.
83. Verse after verse had sprung from silence to run in fiery lines across the page. Never had he known such rapture.
84. Ermold wrote his verse biography of Louis to win back imperial favour.
85. In Much Ado the shift to verse expresses the bitterness and sense of betrayal felt by Claudio at Hero's supposed infidelity.
86. One day Modi had made a collage by pasting a verse from a popular song around a painting, in Cubist fashion.
87. I could find no pattern for the use of verse and prose in Los amantes de Teruel.
88. What an evolutionist believes is totally and completely opposite to what is stated in this verse.
89. This would not matter so much if Pound had not been a great technical innovator in verse writing.
90. Athough the text is sometimes represented in stanzas, it does not appear as verse in all the manuscripts.
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