lilt
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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
“Oh, my God, I can’t even tell you what I’m feeling,” she says, the lilt of her Australian accent coming through.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025
He had a funny new accent that was more lilt and twang than patois.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
“Imma make it up as I go,” she lilts, and for all its premeditation, the song swings.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2022
Singer-songwriter Aldous Harding strums an acoustic guitar and lilts in a dulcet soprano — some of the time.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 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
In nearly every scene a carol or hap-happy song sung in major key lilts behind the frenzied action.
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2019
He doesn’t talk, he lilts, his words taking to the air like birds.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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