methodized

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

First as music, as a hook, as a melodized lyric that qualifies as catchy despite its peculiarity.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2021

He sings in a paint-flat baritone that feels forthright, like melodized speech, but the pace and construction of his lyrics should make us wonder about what isn’t being said.

From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2019

As the photographs proceeded, Aziz Tamoyan, a Yazidi mourner from Armenia, began a traditional melodized speech known as a kilamê ser—half song, half narrative story.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 20, 2016

This is not poetry, but it phrases a wish in a child's own way, to be melodized and fixed in a child's reverent and sensitive memory.

From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Brown, Theron

Where a reader's feelings have been melodized by culture, they will protect him against the influence of a too artificial construction of the verse.

From The Voice and Spiritual Education by Corson, Hiram