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

More than once, when the photographer approaches her to make an adjustment, Saar, half-joking with a rascally lilt in her voice, asks, “We’re done?”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026

And the other is a woman with skin so black it’s blue and a lilt in her voice.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

“Imma make it up as I go,” she lilts, and for all its premeditation, the song swings.

From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2022

But it’s the dusky shadings and subtle Southern lilts that imbue emotional color and make other people’s songs momentarily her own.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2021

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

Her academic pedigree shows when she discusses Jefferson’s fascination with cadence, “which lilts along on iambic feet”; she invokes his little-known study of English prosody and “the importance of pauses to poetic language.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2020

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

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