haiku
noun
hai·ku
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plural haiku
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Examples of haiku in a Sentence
He has written many beautiful haiku.
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The event is open to anyone interested in learning about the modern haiku, senryu and haibun types of poetry, focusing on contemporary free verse forms, not the familiar five-seven-five-syllable structure. — Carole Goldberg, courant.com, "Write Stuff: ‘Sex and the City’ author takes on life over 50," 7 Aug. 2019 Ma has long been part of Japanese design culture, from 11th-century Zen gardens through the postwar architecture of Tadao Ando, whose concrete buildings have been compared to haiku, with the empty space as important as the thing itself. — Toby Skinner, Condé Nast Traveler, "This Japan Cruise Might Just Be the Most Stunning Thing at Sea," 27 June 2019 Anniversary festivities honoring Sho-Fu-En will include pop-up tea ceremonies, a haiku tree and Japanese vegetables in the potager, the kitchen garden also tended by Kondo. — Colleen Smith, The Denver Post, "Denver’s oasis has been tucked away in the Denver Botanic Gardens for 40 years," 29 June 2019 Rhodes’ writing style has evolved from tight, haiku-like jokes, reminiscent of Steven Wright and Woody Allen, to longer conversational stories. — Jeffrey Fleishman, latimes.com, "Did she swallow helium? Let's take the high-pitched comedy of Erica Rhodes seriously," 7 June 2019 Photo: John Deere In person, the Waterloo Boy is a shockingly skeletal piece of iron-hogging and hammering, the engineering equivalent of haiku. — Dan Neil, WSJ, "100 Years of John Deere: How Its Waterloo Boy Tractor Changed America," 7 Sep. 2018 The novel features a large cast of characters and ambitious set pieces: a catastrophic flood, a dance recital, a cherry-blossom-viewing expedition, improvisational haiku writing and excruciating family interviews with potential husbands. — Francine Prose, WSJ, "Five Best: Francine Prose on Family Troubles," 12 July 2018 In the blue and gray living room are curtains designed by Jorge Pardo, Douglas Gordon and Rirkrit Tiravanija, one depicting the sun as flames, another as an ominous hand and eye, the last as a terse haiku. — Adam Popescu, New York Times, "Tobias Rehberger’s Friends Are Always With Him," 26 June 2018 Tom Ziller wrote his entire mock draft for SBNation in haiku format. — Rachel Roberts, idahostatesman, "If draft experts are right, Boise State's Hutchison will land with a six-time NBA champ," 20 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'haiku.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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haiku
noun
hai·ku
| \ ˈhī-ˌkü
\
\
plural haiku
Kids Definition of haiku
: a Japanese poem or form of poetry without rhyme having three lines with the first and last lines having five syllables and the middle having seven