tempo
Example Sentences
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“D” words roll smoothly into their brisk train-going-down-a-track-type tempo, often referred to as the “cattle rattle.”
If the Chargers protect the ball and finish drives instead of settling for field goals, they can keep Houston from dictating the tempo.
From Los Angeles Times
If this is the start of a more mature and considered tempo, backed up by change off the field, then there can be a future.
From BBC
Since then, those megacap stocks that have led the market higher for so long seem to be falling from leadership, which was the opposite of the Thanksgiving tempo.
From Barron's
In the intervening years, it went through "hundreds" of re-writes, changing lyrics and tempos, before finally "coming to life" at Batmanglij's home studio.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.