syllable

The magnetic pull of RØZ — whose stage name is pronounced like the second syllable in “arroz” — cannot be overstated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

"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

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

A particular concern for Aldwin is that he frequently makes something called phonemic paraphasic errors, when a person substitutes a sound or syllable that resembles the intended word.

From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2026

Not like Mama Ya-Ya who calls my name, drawing out the third syllable, the ah sound.

From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

In “Hey Jude,” a cycle of syllables describes taking a sad song and making it better.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

On the chorus of the following “Automatic,” we hear just how nimble and airy she can be, sailing easily through its rush of syllables.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

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 characters he created represented syllables rather than letter sounds, so it is called a syllabary rather than an alphabet.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“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

He did not know that his lips had syllabled a reply.

From In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making by George Palmer Putnam

Even He, with his unspoken voice, more awful than the thunders of Sinai, or the syllabled speech of the Hurricane, speaks to us.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

William learned to love his country about as early as he learned to love his own mother; for his first lessons were loyalty and liberty, syllabled by a mother's lips.

From Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure by William Pittenger

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 Carolyn Wells

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 Barnette Miller

Here were also several western robins, one of which saluted me with a cheerful carol, whose tone and syllabling were exactly like those of the merry redbreast of our Eastern States.

From Birds of the Rockies by Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser

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

From The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins

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 Retta Babcock

Its origin will be explained in the Lecture; the pass-grip some give without lettering or syllabling, and others give it in the same way they do the real grip.

From The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge by William Morgan