cadence

“If you don’t like a party right now, you’re the only one that can change it,” she said in her high-energy cadence.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 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

Then see if you can begin to recognize the type of cadence just by listening to the music.

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

While the bots are getting slightly better at mimicking human cadences, AI-generated writing still reeks of the sterile laboratory where it originates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2024

Jackson’s ringing oratory to the delegates at that year’s Democratic convention built with the cadences and rhythm of his years as a Baptist preacher.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2024

In the stentorian 18th-century cadences of historian Edward Gibbon and essayist Samuel Johnson, he painted a heroic portrait of that nation of shopkeepers and saw Britain’s current troubles in light of its glorious past.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024

At last she spoke again, so low in his ear that the words seemed barely more than broken cadences of breathing.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Their days are cadenced only by breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as a few medical appointments and sporadic detention hearings.

From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024

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 specialists are cadenced and full of adrenaline, so they can get “caught leaning” when the system is out of rhythm.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2021

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

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

Steadily, lithely, and with never an error the rowers drove through the waves—steadily, and in exact time, their cry arose cadencing each stroke.

From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Lewis Wallace

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

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

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

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 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