alliterative

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• Our guest teachers even started chattering when they heard "Keith kicks in Krakow" as we progressed through this alliterative-designed alphabet book.

  Academic text (2004)

• Even the name Sandymount strand—lilting, alliterative—suggests a fantasy world somewhere in the vicinity of Brobdingnag or Narnia.

  Academic text (2004)

• We ask this and all things in Thy precious and alliterative name.

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

• Neil and Nadine - it had a nice, alliterative ring.

  Fiction book (1994)

• More and more elections were decided, in the alliterative phrase of the mass media, by "gold, guns, and goons."

  Academic text (1993)

• After a brief class discussion, the group decided that we would follow the exact alliterative format that Lobel followed in her work.

  Academic text (2004)

• Years ago, we used to refer to Linardi's Laundromat as the only alliterative Italian laundromat in the West Village.

  Fiction book (1995)

• The memorable or resonant phrase, for instance, is often alliterative or assonant: "I like Ike."

  Blog text (25)

• By its delight in expressing meaning through elaborate patterns of alliterative sound, Welsh poetry honors the Goddess's fusion of substance with idea.

  Academic text (1999)

• The poem was filled with alliterative phrases that made it sound musical.

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