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How to use iamb in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word iamb? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
They seemed startled by the realization they could actually craft iamb, anapest, anapest, and have it come out a poem.
A renowned Shakespearean actor, he hits every iamb, every crisp consonant, like a hurdler running to glory.
I hadn't futzed with an iamb in ages, and the words just dog-paddled around the page, senselessly.
The First World War loomed large in her mind, and in the traditional rules of poetry, in the exigencies of rhyme and iamb, she found a logic that had gone missing from her world.
The iamb in this line of blank verse is reversed, in imitation of Cordelia's unsprung life, into a trochee with shortened unstressed syllables.
The IAMB was supposed to supervise the CPA's control and expenditure of Iraq's oil wealth, but for months the US resisted making any concessions to the body.
Examples from Classical Literature
The group seems a sort of combination of the iamb and trochee, and has an element in every possible zone of the movement cycle.
Occasionally, however, and especially in the longer poems, the regular recurrence of the iamb is a little monotonous.
They are both within the zone of the unaccented syllable of the iamb.
The group seems an iamb with a duplicated unaccented syllable.
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