lilt

I had just begun to lilt toward sleep when my phone buzzed.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

In the second cast, Christine Shevchenko fell far short of Ms. Teuscher’s finesse, but she essayed the opening “Preghiera” movement with more of its requisite lilt and shimmer than Ms. Teuscher did.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

Australian is also uniquely incompatible with the American lilt, she said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026

His mournful Ethiopian melodic lilt stood out like nothing else in Top 40, and he hung onto enough art-freak sensibility that he could headline the Super Bowl halftime show with dancers in full-face plastic-surgery bandages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025

The party went on, but the musical lilt of voices, the cymbal lightness of laughter, did not.

From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers

Jareth peeks at her from between the masked dancers whirling around her, hiding and seeking, smiling gently, for once, as “As the World Falls Down” lilts behind the action.

From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026

“Life’s so fun, life’s so fun,” Gavin lilts on “Silk Chiffon,” which features Phoebe Bridgers and has caromed across TikTok, soundtracking cookie dough tutorials, hangovers and odes to crushes.

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022

But it’s the dusky shadings and subtle Southern lilts that imbue emotional color and make other people’s songs momentarily her own.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2021

In a career spanning four decades, Washington instructed actors to speak not just in national dialects but also in regional and local lilts, even historical ones.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2021

But I, Lyow, choose Lay-making, of loud lilts which linger.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White