syllable

Having got myself into the president's eyeline, I waited for the last syllable of Burnham's final word at the end of his opening remarks and I filled the brief silence with a question.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

The magnetic pull of RØZ — whose stage name is pronounced like the second syllable in “arroz” — cannot be overstated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Shortly before he took office in January 2025, the Chinese government and official media began using a different Chinese character for "lu" to represent the first syllable in his surname.

From Barron's ● May 12, 2026

And with that single syllable, I had cancer.

From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2026

His voice, when he finally answered, sounded tinny and sluggish, the words drawled so that each syllable was stretched into two.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Escobar can begin teaching them letters, syllables and how to put words together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

In “Hey Jude,” a cycle of syllables describes taking a sad song and making it better.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

“Get your hands warmed up—we’re going to clap the syllables, ready?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

They identified 100 distinct "behavioral syllables," which are short, repeating actions that form the basic elements of how the fish move and rest.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2026

She said the word in three distinct syllables: Ah-fri-cah.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English

“Poetry’s trash, mere clouds of words, comfort to the hopeless. But this is no cloud, no syllabled phantom that stands here shaking its sword at you.”

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Then I thought of the whispered sentence, and of the three syllabled echo; and knew they must have come from her.

From The Beautiful Eyes of Ysidria by Charles A. Gunnison

You can wander at will through its syllabled mazes, And take all you want—not a copper they cost; What is there to hinder your picking out phrases For an epic as clever as "Paradise Lost"?

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells

The Chief of Council syllabled the sweet morsel of his outrageous thought without utterance.

From The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus by Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull

“And you,” he said, and his voice shed with astounding completeness all its syllabled nicety.

From Once to Every Man by Anton Otto Fischer

The murmur of the tea-urn would seem to fashion itself into airy accents, syllabling, "Mary, thy Blodgett is here!"

From Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne

Here were also several western robins, one of which saluted me with a cheerful carol, whose tone and syllabling were exactly like those of the merry redbreast of our Eastern States.

From Birds of the Rockies by Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser

Men heard Strange voices syllabling with accents strange, By travellers breathed who, startled, paused and feared Seeing the smoke of habitations curled Above this hollow of an unrumoured world.

From Poems New and Old by John Freeman

She added reasons in whose syllabling Napier heard Julian's voice.

From The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins

Its origin will be explained in the Lecture; the pass-grip some give without lettering or syllabling, and others give it in the same way they do the real grip.

From The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge by William Morgan