Sentence examples for rhymes off from inspiring English sources

In what is supposed to be a visual age we may have given up on the idea of Cole Porter dexterity but do we really have to put up with "boy/joy", and tick the rhymes off on our fingers?

"Brooklyn's Finest" was a competitive, though friendly battle between Jay-Z and The Notorious B.I.G. in which Jay-Z tried proving that he is of Biggie's caliber, while Biggie tried brushing his rhymes off as insignificant.

Or at least he likes to come up with rhymes off the top of his head, which might be something different.

John rhymed off all the schools his daughter went to up until Southport College, where Joanne did hairdressing.

Any Canadian soldier who has spent time at the Infantry School in Gagetown, New Brunswick can rhyme off a half-dozen times that the entire base shut down and people were trucked from all over the training area to look for a weapon lost in the woods by some poor soldier.

Want to get into a rhyme-off, a smack down, with Edgar Allan Poe?

Sure there are flaws - some of the rhymes trail off, while Allen's singing voice can descend into little-girl-lost territory and lose its impact.

In the course of their friendship, Higginson tried to lead this "wayward" sport of nature, whose rhymes were off, whose rhythm he called "spasmodic," whose lines were strung tensely between dashes, and who claimed the modern privilege of refusing to signify what others expected her to mean in "the direction of rules and traditions".

Anette Pfeiffer-Klärle, who posts what can loosely described as poems on the internet, saw one of her – frankly terrible – rhymes ripped off by MC Karl-Heinz Rummenigge at the club's annual meeting a few weeks ago and has now successfully claimed compensation.

Singing a dramatic medley of nursery rhymes, kicking off with "Old MacDonald," Reid wowed the crowd with his unexpectedly amazing voice and flair for the dramatic.

"How do you impress a temptress?" wonders this Auto-Tuned John Hegley, and it's the mark of a pretty great song that his tortured rhyming comes off as endearing rather than excruciating.