syncopate
Example Sentences
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Standing in a line, they fall into syncopated steps, slowly coming together for a single breath and hunch.
From Los Angeles Times
The opening ballad, “Risk It All,” is pretty but listless, with Mr. Mars singing over a gently plucked nylon-string guitar until a relaxed syncopated groove folds in.
Their overlapping limbs, seen from different angles, form a syncopated band of unexpected shapes that thrusts Christ’s much larger, confrontational torso toward us, emphasizing his otherworldliness.
And the clattering syncopated loop that repeats through “Oblivion” is there mostly as a contrast to the wispy and diaphanous vocals, which are so thin and leavened with reverb that they threaten to float away.
In court, Sheeran's team accepted that the two songs share a similar syncopated chord pattern.
From BBC
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