staccato
Example Sentences
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It is Sunday, 19 November 1989 and the catchy staccato theme tune of ESPN's SportsCenter plays out on American television.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
“Does the question disturb you?” he continued in a series of staccato questions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
An England regular when Stokes and McCullum took charge in the summer of 2022, the 27-year-old has had a staccato career over the past three years.
From BBC • Jan. 2, 2026
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 • Oct. 11, 2025
For example, most ballads are sung legato, and most marches are played fairly staccato or marcato, whether they are marked that way or not.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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