cadence

During her debut at the White House podium on Tuesday, Zacharia spoke in a stilted cadence while reading out a list of Trump’s accomplishments and discussing her excitement for the job.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Rather, it reads with the cadence of a PI.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

New DoT rules will make it easier to increase space launch cadence.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

They can be technically proficient, maybe even a little funny, but there is always an underlying cadence of the uncanny valley that I still doubt Suno v6 pro et al. or whatever has totally overcome.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

As she listened to their sleep sounds, Jinjoo let her worries subside and let the cadence of their breathing lull her to sleep.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

He couldn’t navigate transitions into and out of baks, the introductory rhythmic cadences of Senegalese sabar music.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Now speak it,’” Tami reflects, his cadences sounding in her voice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025

He experiments with new tones and cadences; the beats bounce, the production is subdued, but innovative.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2024

He has had to learn the playbook, pre-snap cadences, even how to put his pads on.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2024

Some marched in formation, easily falling back into old cadences.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

No matter how many times I brought it up, Epiphania always gave the same sad answer in her cadenced, Italian accent: "No, you can't buy it! The house is not on the market!"

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2022

In language as crass and cadenced as gunfire, Mamet turned their man-eat-man philosophy, which some call capitalism, into brutal prole poetry: a poetry of predation, you might even say.

From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2022

The cadenced distribution of cotton bolls across the picture just over their heads evokes musical notes written on a staff.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2021

Screaming or loud talk does not have the same impact as a slow and measured and cadenced statement where each word sinks to a slightly lower octave.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2020

The Jefferson style was fluid, lyrical, cadenced, and melodious.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

The cadencing of a musical phrase in Hawaiian song was marked by a peculiarity all its own.

From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Nathaniel Bright Emerson

The psychology of rhythm shows its basal value in cadencing the soul.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall

The fifth, when in the lowest voice, should be used as in two-part counterpoint, except when used in V43 or the cadencing tonic six-four chord.

From A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons by Friedrich Johann Lehmann

Steadily, lithely, and with never an error the rowers drove through the waves—steadily, and in exact time, their cry arose cadencing each stroke.

From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Lewis Wallace

Listening fearfully, he heard through these a murmurous baritone cadencing: Talbot Potter declaiming the inwardness of "Roderick Hanscom"; and then—oh, bells of Elfland faintly chiming!—the voice of Wanda Malone!

From Harlequin and Columbine by Booth Tarkington