lilt

I had just begun to lilt toward sleep when my phone buzzed.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

He speaks softly, with a lilt he picked up when his family moved to Australia from Lebanon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

More than once, when the photographer approaches her to make an adjustment, Saar, half-joking with a rascally lilt in her voice, asks, “We’re done?”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

Kirkwood, who is from Morar in Scotland, confirmed she had been told many times that, with her "Highland lilt", she had "sent babies to sleep"

From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026

Her first reaction was of anger, shocked at the risk I took, but over the following days her posture improved and her voice carried a lilt of happiness.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys

“Life’s so fun, life’s so fun,” Gavin lilts on “Silk Chiffon,” which features Phoebe Bridgers and has caromed across TikTok, soundtracking cookie dough tutorials, hangovers and odes to crushes.

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022

Getting digital voices to sound human, with the many required lilts and inflections, is something that AI can still struggle with.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2021

But it’s the dusky shadings and subtle Southern lilts that imbue emotional color and make other people’s songs momentarily her own.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2021

In a career spanning four decades, Washington instructed actors to speak not just in national dialects but also in regional and local lilts, even historical ones.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2021

But I, Lyow, choose Lay-making, of loud lilts which linger.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White