Sentences with CRETIC
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"In linguistics, a cretic is a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable between two unstressed syllables."
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"The word 'poetry' is an example of a cretic with stress on the first syllable."
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"The line 'To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.' contains four cretics."
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"Greek and Latin poetry often make use of cretics."
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"The cretic meter is commonly used in hymns and chants."
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"Many nursery rhymes are written in cretic meter."
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"The poet skillfully employed cretics to create a rhythmic effect in the poem."
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"In scansion, the cretic is represented by the symbol '⌗'."
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"I learned about cretics in my literature class."