staccato

Example Sentences

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As we scampered back along the coastline toward the lighthouse, our footfalls timed in a staccato dance with the incoming tide, I heard Fisher’s chirpy voice.

From New York Times

During rehearsals in Harlem last week, Higginson led the Sing Harlem choir, instructing them to stand tall, jive to the rhythm, and hit sharp staccato notes.

From New York Times

The woodpecker is back, hammering the gutter above my bedroom window every dawn in a staccato that reverberates through my morning fog louder than last night’s burgundy.

From Washington Post

“I’ve had some trauma/Did things I didn’t wanna/Was too afraid to tell ya/But now I think it’s time,” she sings in her fluttering vibrato, accompanied just by staccato keyboard notes.

From New York Times

Sit with the painting long enough and you can feel a lifting from the top of the canvas evoked by staccato white, snow-like brushstrokes.

From Washington Post