lilt

I had just begun to lilt toward sleep when my phone buzzed.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

He speaks softly, with a lilt he picked up when his family moved to Australia from Lebanon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

Australian is also uniquely incompatible with the American lilt, she said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026

“I felt a connection with Sandro immediately,” she says in her straightforward Georgia lilt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2026

Her first reaction was of anger, shocked at the risk I took, but over the following days her posture improved and her voice carried a lilt of happiness.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys

“It has been a challenge going from the scandal to relationship to miscarriage to arrest to being pregnant again,” she says as a sentimental melody lilts in the background.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026

“Life’s so fun, life’s so fun,” Gavin lilts on “Silk Chiffon,” which features Phoebe Bridgers and has caromed across TikTok, soundtracking cookie dough tutorials, hangovers and odes to crushes.

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022

Yet it is acting for animation that isolates the wonders of Schaal’s voice — an instrument that lilts and rises and motors with a warm kinetic tickle.

From Washington Post ● May 26, 2022

In a career spanning four decades, Washington instructed actors to speak not just in national dialects but also in regional and local lilts, even historical ones.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2021

But I, Lyow, choose Lay-making, of loud lilts which linger.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White