Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an alliterative manner; with alliteration.
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- adverb In an
alliterative manner.
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- adverb in an alliterative manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Within the unfolding of Aoxomoxoa, (a title alliteratively and reflexively evoking the very word "axis" itself!), the flora-like tendrils of childhood experience are anchored, and then extended spoke-like through the flights and journeys of life's passage.
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A planter of about thirty years of age, clad in buckskin shortclothes, sat smoking his pipe, after his noonday meal, in the wide entry that ran through his double log house from the south side to the north, the house being of the sort called alliteratively "two pens and a passage."
Duffels Edward Eggleston 1869
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The novel begins with Warner Williams, an alliteratively named stringer for Esquire debating with editor Harold Hayes about the reporter's article on a B-movie adaptation of "The Raven."
Brian Joseph Davis: A Horrifying Satire of Hollywood Returns Brian Joseph Davis 2011
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The novel begins with Warner Williams, an alliteratively named stringer for Esquire debating with editor Harold Hayes about the reporter's article on a B-movie adaptation of "The Raven."
Brian Joseph Davis: A Horrifying Satire of Hollywood Returns Brian Joseph Davis 2011
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Tween is very obviously an artificial, consumer-culture-created construct (he said alliteratively), but since we're living the years here, I always thought it was more like 10-12.
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"Once I chased the rainbow's end on horseback" he writes in another alliteratively-titled poem, "Exercise in Excess" and there is something of that quest in many pieces of work, the rainbow being poetry itself.
Archive 2010-02-01 Rus Bowden 2010
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I am, of course, talking about the new More 4 show, the alliteratively catchy, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
Razzle dazzle 'em Jeff 2007
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Back from the optometrist, eyes dilated, and things closer or farther away than the fixed focus are fuzzy, he said alliteratively.
A Quiet Night in the Recliner ... Steve Perry 2009
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Back from the optometrist, eyes dilated, and things closer or farther away than the fixed focus are fuzzy, he said alliteratively.
Archive 2009-11-01 Steve Perry 2009
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The fact that Trumpeldor and his associates have no problems whatsoever in talking about Gentiles amongst themselves, on this site, in the very same way that a Southern gentleman might refer to Jews and others at the yearly (think alliteratively forward and backward at this moment) Klan gathering is, in my opinion, highly offensive.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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