syllable

Having got myself into the president's eyeline, I waited for the last syllable of Burnham's final word at the end of his opening remarks and I filled the brief silence with a question.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

The magnetic pull of RØZ — whose stage name is pronounced like the second syllable in “arroz” — cannot be overstated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

The children had encountered the “-le” syllable the past school year, but were repeating the lesson to make sure they grasped it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

Shortly before he took office in January 2025, the Chinese government and official media began using a different Chinese character for "lu" to represent the first syllable in his surname.

From Barron's ● May 12, 2026

The extra syllable in preventative isn’t wrong, but it’s unnecessary.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

In “Hey Jude,” a cycle of syllables describes taking a sad song and making it better.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

On the chorus of the following “Automatic,” we hear just how nimble and airy she can be, sailing easily through its rush of syllables.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

They identified 100 distinct "behavioral syllables," which are short, repeating actions that form the basic elements of how the fish move and rest.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2026

News channel YTN lavished praise on Kang's "heartfelt message to Korea", referring to the movie by its affectionate shorthand "Kedehun", a combination of the title's first three syllables.

From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026

But in the Kiangsu city where they now lived the people spoke in syllables which splintered from their lips and from the ends of their tongues.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

“Poetry’s trash, mere clouds of words, comfort to the hopeless. But this is no cloud, no syllabled phantom that stands here shaking its sword at you.”

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Miss Chancellor syllabled her address, and Mrs. Tarrant came forward, smiling.

From The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) by Henry James

The Chief of Council syllabled the sweet morsel of his outrageous thought without utterance.

From The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus by Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull

He follows down the gradual Extinction of Syllables; and in this respect, our anciently syllabled, now mute E, takes high place, and falls first under his consideration.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various

The texture of each shadowy bush seemed that gauzy drapery, sprayed with lilies-of-the-valley, and the leaves syllabled her name in cautious whispers.

From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives

Oh, weary women, syllabling brokenly His precious promises, patient, untiring watcher, whose tired feet have grown weary of the 'burden and heat of the day,' wait 'God's time!'

From Clemence The Schoolmistress of Waveland by Retta Babcock

Its origin will be explained in the Lecture; the pass-grip some give without lettering or syllabling, and others give it in the same way they do the real grip.

From The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge by William Morgan

Their tongues join together in syllabling the sharp-cut words, which for ever slice asunder time and the broad-backed moors.

From Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf

Instances of nouns and adjectives employed as verbs are: pennanc’d, luting, passion’d, neighbour’d, syllabling, companion’d, labrynth, anguish’d, poesied, vineyard’d, woof’d, loaned, medicin’d, zon’d, mesh, pleasure, legion’d, companion, green’d, gordian’d, character’d, finn’d, forest’d, tusk’d, monitor.

From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Barnette Miller

Music without the syllabling of words—yet breathing worship, and with the spirit of piety filling all the Night-Heavens.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson