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Examples of sonnet sequence in a Sentence
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In separating lines from some of his most moving and beautiful poems (the sonnet sequence for his mother, for example) with slashes rather than setting them in their original form, the article diminishes the deep power of the lines that recall folding linen with his mother.
—The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
This poem is part of a sonnet sequence that meditates on Andrea Modica’s photographs of skulls unearthed from the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo.
—New York Times, 14 July 2022
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First Known Use
1881, in the meaning defined above
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“Sonnet sequence.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sonnet%20sequence. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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