lilt

Example Sentences

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“I felt a connection with Sandro immediately,” she says in her straightforward Georgia lilt.

From Los Angeles Times

“Good work, Mrs. Warne,” came a man’s voice, thick with a Scottish lilt.

From Literature

Fun fact: In concert, she reproduces the lilting whistled interlude to perfection.

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At the same time, there is a sort of Shakespearean lilt to much of of it; many lines, in my random examination, resolve into iambic pentameter.

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He speaks with the same measured warmth as ever — that deep, lilting rumble that can shift from conspiratorial murmur to amused growl in a heartbeat — but he sometimes loses a name mid-thought.

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