cadences
Example Sentences
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In walk-and-talk videos, he used Trump’s singsong cadences to freestyle on pop culture topics from Scooby-Doo to Weird Al Yankovic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025
It’s an idea that’s sitting there — they’re so polar opposites and they’re both such good actors that they’ve created characters with such specific quirks and body movement and cadences and things like that.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2025
He experiments with new tones and cadences; the beats bounce, the production is subdued, but innovative.
From Salon • Aug. 30, 2024
In the stentorian 18th-century cadences of historian Edward Gibbon and essayist Samuel Johnson, he painted a heroic portrait of that nation of shopkeepers and saw Britain’s current troubles in light of its glorious past.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2024
In Miserere mei he repeatedly causes the flow of the music to come to rest on cadences, affirming its centre of gravity.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
