syncopate

Example Sentences

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Most of the songs vamp through a handful of chords as Keys gives her voice room to leap, to curl, to muse, to syncopate; she has rarely sounded so jazzy and improvisatory.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2021

Not many, but enough to start infecting celebrations with doubt, to break up the exact time, the exact place, to syncopate something that used to be whole.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 2, 2019

During a show-pausing turn in “Mary Poppins Returns,” Lin-Manuel Miranda takes center stage to sing and syncopate, and the movie flickers to life.

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2018

From 1935 the itch to complicate and syncopate gets to him.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2010

Syncopate a square column, and leave an adhesive salve; syncopate the salve, and leave a person found in a bindery; syncopate again, and leave a prayer.

From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 by Dodge, Mary Mapes