lilt
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He speaks softly, with a lilt he picked up when his family moved to Australia from Lebanon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
More than once, when the photographer approaches her to make an adjustment, Saar, half-joking with a rascally lilt in her voice, asks, “We’re done?”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 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
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
In “Snow Globe,” her glowing voice lilts over nostalgic guitar riffs: “The last time I was driven away / Looking back at you, baby / Aren’t you better off without me rooted in your town?”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2023
“Imma make it up as I go,” she lilts, and for all its premeditation, the song swings.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 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
He doesn’t talk, he lilts, his words taking to the air like birds.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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