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How to use Alexandrine in a sentence

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Sentence Examples
Alexandrine Ananou has distinguished herself through her outstanding academic record and her contributions to the community.
His long attachment to Alexandrine is at odds with his reputation as a misogynist, which is derived from some of his paintings rather than from his copious personal writings.
In Alexandrine verse, the play recounts the sufferings in love of the heirs of the Trojan War.
I'd love to hear that voice of yours revving on some Alexandrine verse.
The tower was an exact scale replica of the destroyed Alexandrine Pharos Lighthouse.
I am particularly pleased to be able to use this venue to praise committed, dynamic and successful students like Alexandrine who will no doubt become the leaders of tomorrow.
I mean, let's see you write three to four thousand of these monstrous stanzas, with their sinewy ababbcbcc rhyme scheme and closing alexandrine.
His poetic emblem books in particular, written in alexandrine verse and with a moralizing tone, brought him international renown.
The polymath Anthony Burgess was on hand to supply the English subtitles, preserving the dialogue's alexandrine form.
His earlier work tends to be written in traditional rhymed quatrains but, as he matured, he dropped the rhymes and worked in a freer but still basically alexandrine movement.
The French alexandrine is currently the heroic line in French literature, though in earlier periods the decasyllable took precedence.
Examples from Classical Literature
The Old Spanish Alexandrine verse-line was composed of two 7-syllable half-lines.
This led to the Alexandrine war, in the course of which this elder Ptolemy perished.
The Alexandrine of twelve syllables might seem to be the trimeter iambic of the ancients.
One must eat every day, and the finest Alexandrine verses are not worth a bit of Brie cheese.
There was the Odeon quite near them, and Philip soon shared his friend's passion for the tragedians of Louis XIV and the sonorous Alexandrine.
The four-stressed long lines sometimes alternate with Alexandrine and septenary verses.
The use of the Alexandrine in the heroic couplet, he avers, gives variety and energy.
But the plan of the poem may have been suggested by some Alexandrine model.
And Alexandrine did think of a way, but what it was must be told in the next chapter.
This Alexandrine is not common, and is probably a mere oversight.
This beautiful maiden was Alexandrine Flicie Villeminot, an orphan.
By itself the Alexandrine has not often been employed in Modern English.
Our Iambic in its sixth form, is commonly called the Alexandrine measure.
But at this time Trypho, the Alexandrine architect, was there.
Epiphanius says that Clement was either an Alexandrine or an Athenian.
Only he can't tell an Alexandrine from a decasyllabic verse.
In general, the modern use of the alexandrine is characterized by increased freedom in the placing of the cesura.
Hunt imitated Dryden in the use of both alexandrine and triplet.
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