syllable

Example Sentences

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In healthy participants, brain activity dropped when the imagined syllable matched the sound played through the headphones.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2026

It lasts just over two minutes, and not a single note or syllable is wasted.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025

Fun fact: my favorite culinary school instructor pronounced it “eye-oh-LEE,” with emphasis on the last syllable.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2025

One more syllable than schadenfreude but still one fewer than endzeitgemütlichkeit—and mostly pronounceable to English speakers like myself.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2025

Tata Ndu held up his hand and declared in his deep, big-man’s voice, giving each syllable the exact same size and weight: “Now it is time for the people to have an election.”

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver