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Meanings of alliterative in English
Usage of alliterative in English
1
The question arises-Whatis the nature of the cadence in alliterative verse?
2
At intervals the reader is treated with a sprinkling of alliterative sentences.
3
And it actively annoyed him how he was always alliterative when aroused.
4
The power of alliterative harmony in the original song is extraordinary.
5
I'm quickly running out of alliterative words here, but you get the picture.
6
The Stratford-London stagecoach eerily anticipates modern railway issues, including glibly alliterative anti-terrorism announcements.
7
Nothing takes the Oriental mind so much as a retort alliterative or jingling.
8
ABC floated the Soccer Bomber, but it just doesn't have the alliterative ring.
9
He must have thought himself vastly clever with his alliterative epigram.
10
This alliterative production was written without any sense of the peril that makes prophecy.
11
The Anglo-Saxon poetry, for example, had been rhythmical and alliterative.
12
In the 2006 film, Bond makes an alliterative journey to Miami, Madagascar and Montenegro.
13
The name stuck, as alliterative labels are wont to do in the hands of journalists.
14
Put away by Pedro, Tyler sighed, always automatically alliterative, as the first goal went in.
15
An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.
16
In 1542, one Robert Vaughan wrote an alliterative poem, entitled 'The Falcon and the Pie.'
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