staccato

When texting Trump, Rutte would echo the president’s own syntax and hyperbole, keeping his messages congratulatory, with staccato sentences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

It is Sunday, 19 November 1989 and the catchy staccato theme tune of ESPN's SportsCenter plays out on American television.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

The book’s 47 staccato chapters jump from one subject to another without much of a discernible pattern.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

But the bigger issue is the production’s staccato rhythm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

I could imagine her tramping through the rooms, perhaps paying sixpence for admission, ripping the quietude with her sharp, staccato laugh.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

At one point, while moving around the space, she emits a series of staccati on one note — “Ha, ha, ha” and then “He, he, he.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2013

She sang her high F, managed chromatics and staccati with incredible ease.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wieniawski, I have read, could only play his staccati at a high rate of speed.

From Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers by Frederick Herman Martens

He lent tenderness to the staccatos of the second and imbued its dizzying runs with painterly depth.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2022

Armed with a set of spoons, he battered them against every available surface — from his knees, teeth and cheeks to pillars, sidewalks and banisters — scooping rhythmic staccatos out of thin air.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2021

Heard on an archival recording, the piece’s crucial staccatos are imprecisely pronounced, and the finale is shockingly subdued.

From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2021

As some stand-up is moving toward a more flowing, storytelling state, it’s nice to have the bold staccatos of sketch in the mix, too.

From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2019

It is a perfect conflagration of impossible staccatos and scales.

From Stars of the Opera by Mabel Wagnalls