staccato
Example Sentences
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The book’s 47 staccato chapters jump from one subject to another without much of a discernible pattern.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
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 • Oct. 11, 2025
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
The band emerged in a flicker of static and staccato strings, accompanied by a lone saxophone, before breaking into Happiness.
From BBC • Jun. 27, 2025
Kilvin growled out a couple words and pounded his fist on the table, each thump as his hand came down was accompanied by a staccato burst of reddish light that welled up from his hand.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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Number the Stars
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Music - Introductory
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