syllable

"We went through each word and each syllable to make sure that the pronunciation was perfect for Bilquis," she said.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

“You’re going to hear that syllable make an ‘uhl’ sound,” Cox explained.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

Shortly before he took office in January 2025, the Chinese government and official media began using a different Chinese character for "lu" to represent the first syllable in his surname.

From Barron's ● May 12, 2026

I had more trouble with voiceless consonants than voiced ones—one of the sample sentences for this type of SD reduced my voice to a whisper on nearly every syllable.

From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026

While the rest of the class is hanging on every syllable that comes out of Mr. Landau’s mouth, I’m looking at the false tongue poster and I’m kind of wishing it wasn’t wrong.

From "Liar & Spy" by Rebecca Stead

They identified 100 distinct "behavioral syllables," which are short, repeating actions that form the basic elements of how the fish move and rest.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2026

News channel YTN lavished praise on Kang's "heartfelt message to Korea", referring to the movie by its affectionate shorthand "Kedehun", a combination of the title's first three syllables.

From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026

The technique is used in South Indian Carnatic - or classical - music, and involves repeating certain syllables and phrases to create a drum-like sound.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

In the final coup de théâtre, a black-and-white environment slowly transforms into a brilliantly green, leafy tree as Ana’s choked syllables become the “I” that her father forbade her to use.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026

“Hello,” I said, in English, trying out the syllables on my tongue.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

“Poetry’s trash, mere clouds of words, comfort to the hopeless. But this is no cloud, no syllabled phantom that stands here shaking its sword at you.”

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Truth, in whatever tongue it be syllabled, does not die.

From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Lever, Charles James

It might as well have been syllabled to the winds.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell

You can wander at will through its syllabled mazes, And take all you want—not a copper they cost; What is there to hinder your picking out phrases For an epic as clever as "Paradise Lost"?

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn

Yea, hath my heart become for Love a lyre, And he hath syllabled thy name, and I Fill in each silence with a song; aspire To rival in my rapture Euterpe.

From His Lady of the Sonnets by Norwood, Robert W.

Oh, weary women, syllabling brokenly His precious promises, patient, untiring watcher, whose tired feet have grown weary of the 'burden and heat of the day,' wait 'God's time!'

From Clemence The Schoolmistress of Waveland by Babcock, Retta

Music without the syllabling of words—yet breathing worship, and with the spirit of piety filling all the Night-Heavens.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John

Their tongues join together in syllabling the sharp-cut words, which for ever slice asunder time and the broad-backed moors.

From Jacob's Room by Woolf, Virginia

Instances of nouns and adjectives employed as verbs are: pennanc’d, luting, passion’d, neighbour’d, syllabling, companion’d, labrynth, anguish’d, poesied, vineyard’d, woof’d, loaned, medicin’d, zon’d, mesh, pleasure, legion’d, companion, green’d, gordian’d, character’d, finn’d, forest’d, tusk’d, monitor.

From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette

She added reasons in whose syllabling Napier heard Julian's voice.

From The Messenger by Robins, Elizabeth