syllable

Example Sentences

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But Mitski always has a specific story she wants to tell, and she ensures that every syllable is in place.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

In healthy participants, brain activity dropped when the imagined syllable matched the sound played through the headphones.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2026

One more syllable than schadenfreude but still one fewer than endzeitgemütlichkeit—and mostly pronounceable to English speakers like myself.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2025

I mean, this is us lining up sine waves, “Minority Report”-style, and seeing where a vowel or a syllable is sort of falling out of place and giving the actor’s accent away.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2025

Americans dutifully adopted the new term, but many British users disliked aluminum, pointing out that it disrupted the –ium pattern established by sodium, calcium, and strontium, so they added a vowel and syllable.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson