staccato

Example Sentences

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The progression of the façades from warm rose to pink-cream to mauve-green is knit together by the blues and sienna of the windows, anchored by the staccato pink and green water below.

From The Wall Street Journal

The staccato nature of the writing is helped enormously by the entrancing acting of both Vargas, who breezes through different theatrical realms as though he had wings, and Hernandez, who locks realistically into character.

From Los Angeles Times

There was a kind of rhythm, a fast staccato he could get.

From Los Angeles Times

The hours of darkness were once again punctuated by the staccato of air defence guns, buzz of drones and large explosions.

From BBC

The band emerged in a flicker of static and staccato strings, accompanied by a lone saxophone, before breaking into Happiness.

From BBC