cadence

Pattinson portrays Hansen as a caricature of himself, accentuating the journalist’s unmistakable vocal cadence to remove any distance between “To Catch a Predator” and the man behind the show.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

“I also need to be louder in my cadence because this was my first game in front of a big crowd.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

Shapiro’s cadence, inflection, and conspicuous use of the pregnant pause have long invited comparisons to Obama’s speaking style, not all of them positive.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

This will be its sixth season in five years, and in an age when streaming shows can take years between seasons, there’s something comforting in such a reliably consistent cadence.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

The cadence of it is pleasant to me now, and this spin around the track feels easy.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

Mr. Levine plays a far gentler and more original character than we’re used to from him; Jennifer Jason Leigh, as Nicky’s mother, Victoria, has long turned her dying cadences into the voice of dread.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

He experiments with new tones and cadences; the beats bounce, the production is subdued, but innovative.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2024

He has had to learn the playbook, pre-snap cadences, even how to put his pads on.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2024

“He’s mastered everything in terms of the offense — the plays, the cadences, and the defensive structure with protections,” Harbaugh said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024

This type of cadence is more common at pause-type cadences than at full-stop ones.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

No matter how many times I brought it up, Epiphania always gave the same sad answer in her cadenced, Italian accent: "No, you can't buy it! The house is not on the market!"

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2022

The cadenced distribution of cotton bolls across the picture just over their heads evokes musical notes written on a staff.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2021

Screaming or loud talk does not have the same impact as a slow and measured and cadenced statement where each word sinks to a slightly lower octave.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2020

With each cadenced step she took, her tail swung to the rhythm of her paws hitting the snow.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2017

The Raleigh accent is soft and beautifully cadenced, but my brother's is a more complex hybrid, informed by his professional relationships with marble-mouthed, deep-country work crews and his abiding love of hard-core rap music.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

The cadencing of a musical phrase in Hawaiian song was marked by a peculiarity all its own.

From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Nathaniel Bright Emerson

The psychology of rhythm shows its basal value in cadencing the soul.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall

The six-four chord may be used at the close as the cadencing tonic six-four chord.

From A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons by Friedrich Johann Lehmann

Listening fearfully, he heard through these a murmurous baritone cadencing: Talbot Potter declaiming the inwardness of "Roderick Hanscom"; and then—oh, bells of Elfland faintly chiming!—the voice of Wanda Malone!

From Harlequin and Columbine by Booth Tarkington

The fifth, when in the lowest voice, should be used as in two-part counterpoint, except when used in V43 or the cadencing tonic six-four chord.

From A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons by Friedrich Johann Lehmann