lilting
Example Sentences
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Returning to the Metropolitan Opera this month, the Italian classic uses the lilting three-beat form as a unifying element in its tragic drama of a woman’s struggle with Parisian polite society.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026
Reflecting his heritage, the music is full of Afrobeat rhythms, log drums, spiritual mantras and lilting guitar lines.
From BBC • Sep. 10, 2025
The film and her lilting performance in it show how grief can coexist with a kind of grace — a peace with the unknowability of what lies beyond.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2025
But it was her TV ads for orange juice—featuring her own children, a cartoon bird, and a lilting jingle about the “Florida sunshine tree”—that made her the nation’s leading avatar for white-bread American wholesomeness.
From Slate • Jan. 11, 2025
It beckoned him, lilting and insistent; delicate music, played by delicate instruments that he could not identify, with one rippling, bell-like phrase running through it in a gold thread of delight.
From "The Dark is Rising" by Susan Cooper
Vocabulary lists containing lilting
The Devil's Arithmetic
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"Two Kinds" by Amy Tan
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"American History" by Judith Ortiz Cofer
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