syllable

"We went through each word and each syllable to make sure that the pronunciation was perfect for Bilquis," she said.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 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

And with that single syllable, I had cancer.

From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2026

It lasts just over two minutes, and not a single note or syllable is wasted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025

Every syllable is awkward, and every reaction feels wrong.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

Lines like “I love you, I love the Lord” arrive with syllables modified to fit the shape of an eerie melody, transforming the natural musicality of speech into something uncanny.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 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

The technique is used in South Indian Carnatic - or classical - music, and involves repeating certain syllables and phrases to create a drum-like sound.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

He looked at the subway map and announced that at some point during their stay, he'd maybe take her to the Louvre, which he pronounced as having two distinct syllables.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

“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

But let us once comprehend the holier nature of the art of man, and begin to look for the meaning of the spirit, however syllabled, and the scene is changed; and we are changed also.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by John Ruskin

It was thus with the Reader when he syllabled, with watering lips, guess after guess at the half-opened basket.

From Charles Dickens as a Reader by Charles Foster Kent

Several of the little chance phrases, the merest atoms of exclamation here and there, will still be borne in mind as having had an intense flavour of fun about them, as syllabled in the Reading.

From Charles Dickens as a Reader by Charles Foster Kent

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

Men heard Strange voices syllabling with accents strange, By travellers breathed who, startled, paused and feared Seeing the smoke of habitations curled Above this hollow of an unrumoured world.

From Poems New and Old by John Freeman

Here were also several western robins, one of which saluted me with a cheerful carol, whose tone and syllabling were exactly like those of the merry redbreast of our Eastern States.

From Birds of the Rockies by Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser

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

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

The murmur of the tea-urn would seem to fashion itself into airy accents, syllabling, "Mary, thy Blodgett is here!"

From Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne