English example sentences with "verse"

Give me chapter and verse.
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He wrote several plays in verse.
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He gave me chapter and verse on how bears pass the winter.
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He translated the verse into English.
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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.
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‘Without burning thirst, what is the brook for?’ Arkadź Kulašoŭ asks in his verse.
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I'm astonished, wall, that you haven't collapsed into ruins, since you're holding up the weary verse of so many poets.
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An epigram is a short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterized by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.
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In everyday life no one speaks in verse.
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The next verse is even more touching.
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After this he often used a personal form of free verse.
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From which chapter is this verse?
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Which chapter is this verse from?
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I can't remember how the second verse starts.
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Tom forgot the words to the second verse, so he sang the first verse again.
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"There rest they, nor their sequence change, nor place, / save when, by chance, on grating hinge the door / swings open, and a light breath sweeps the floor, / or rougher blasts the tender leaves disperse. / Loose then they flutter, for she recks no more / to call them back, and rearrange the verse; / untaught the votaries leave, the Sibyl's cave to curse."
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Sami silently recited the Verse of the Throne to wake up from sleep paralysis.
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This is a Meccan verse.
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Read that verse again.
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What does this Quranic verse mean?
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Read the Quranic verse again.
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This is a very interesting verse of the Quran.
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He came across a very interesting verse in the Quran.
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What's your favorite verse of the Quran?
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The first Quranic verse that was revealed to Muhammad, peace be upon him, was "Read."
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The word cloud results for our text mining were off because one person spammed a Bible verse every day.
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She translated the verse into French and German.
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I would say that a verse is a structural unit, whereas a passage or excerpt can consist of parts of multiple verses or a small part of a verse.
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Sing that verse again.
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Nigerian singer Fireboy DML's smash track "Peru" was gaining traction across the globe when megastar Ed Sheeran offered to contribute a verse to the remix.
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Ziri recited a Bible verse.
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Latin poetry used quantitative verse during the life of the language.

I mostly write free verse.

I mostly write free verse, but I employ meter and rhyme from time to time.

It has seemed to me that while the full enjoyment of La Fontaine must always be reserved for those who can read him in French, it might be possible at least to convey something of his originality and blithe spirit through the medium of light verse.

I mostly write formal verse.

The whole work is written in blank verse.

How do you interpret this verse?

"Then your worship understands rhyming too?" "And better than thou thinkest," replied Don Quixote, "as thou shalt see when thou carriest a letter written in verse from beginning to end to my lady Dulcinea del Toboso, for I would have thee know, Sancho, that all or most of the knights-errant in days of yore were great troubadours and great musicians, for both of these accomplishments, or more properly speaking gifts, are the peculiar property of lovers-errant: true it is that the verses of the knights of old have more spirit than neatness in them."

I believe that John 3:16 is the most famous verse in the Bible.

Alexandrine verse is twelve-syllable.

The same line is repeated in each verse.

This verse is well constructed.

That's not what someone would express in verse.

He was plagiarizing those poems verse by verse.

Free verse gives the writer great freedom.

I believe John 3:16 is the best-known verse in the Bible.

I began to like his sentences more after he started writing in verse, although that's not poetry.

Not every sentence can be written in verse.

What's that Christian verse about "Babylon the Great"?