caesura

Example Sentences

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If the pandemic had a musical score, that trick ending might be a caesura, shown by two parallel diagonal lines: railroad tracks, only we ran out of rail.

From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2020

Alone on the sea for weeks, Fox has a moment of caesura in his own life, and he finds the experience both rewarding and frightening.

From Slate • Dec. 3, 2019

That is a semicolon from the heavens, you know, it’s like the most amazing caesura, to say these two things that are simultaneous and true.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 20, 2019

For a musical about a war — or more precisely, a caesura between hostilities — “All Is Calm” is a staunchly apolitical and warily genteel work.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2018

There is, also, in almost every line of poetry, a pause at or near its middle, which is called the caesura.

From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes