dactyl

Example Sentences

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They aren’t exactly Homeric dactyls, but they seem intended to mirror that ancient literary form, and they give “Everyday Life” an easily digestible if slightly pretentious rhythm.

From Washington Post

And this dactyl—this strange and beautiful creature with its wrinkled, gray-brown hide, barrel chest, and slender neck—she wanted to hug it.

From Literature

Without the translation, the vuvv’s ode, its scratchy iambs and dactyls, sound like someone walking forcefully in corduroys.

From Literature

A single stressed syllable, then a trochee, then a dactyl, for prosody nerds.

From Literature

The double dactyl is a form invented by writers Anthony Hecht and Paul Pascal on a whim over lunch in Rome in 1951.

From Washington Post