cadences

Example Sentences

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In walk-and-talk videos, he used Trump’s singsong cadences to freestyle on pop culture topics from Scooby-Doo to Weird Al Yankovic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025

The voices of his protagonists, which is to say the cadences of their social identities, determine not just the sound but the shape of their stories.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2025

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

The melodic, swooping movement of her Jamaican patois was quickly replaced by the more stable cadences of American English.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore