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

In English, 75 of the 100 are a single syllable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

“No,” I said, noticing how that one syllable climbed at the end.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

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

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 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

News channel YTN lavished praise on Kang's "heartfelt message to Korea", referring to the movie by its affectionate shorthand "Kedehun", a combination of the title's first three syllables.

From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026

The technique is used in South Indian Carnatic - or classical - music, and involves repeating certain syllables and phrases to create a drum-like sound.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

The queen stretches out the syllables of her name.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

“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

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

Men had not a hammer to begin with, not a syllabled articulation: they had it all to make;—and they have made it.

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle

The strain consisted of three notes in loud, ringing tones, which syllabled themselves very plainly in my ear as "Whip-for-her."

From A Bird-Lover in the West by Olive Thorne Miller

The hearth, the roof-tree, the mountain, and the rivulet are not so eloquent as the once syllabled 'Good-bye,' come it from ever so humble a voice.

From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Charles James Lever

Instances of nouns and adjectives employed as verbs are: pennanc’d, luting, passion’d, neighbour’d, syllabling, companion’d, labrynth, anguish’d, poesied, vineyard’d, woof’d, loaned, medicin’d, zon’d, mesh, pleasure, legion’d, companion, green’d, gordian’d, character’d, finn’d, forest’d, tusk’d, monitor.

From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Barnette Miller

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

Their tongues join together in syllabling the sharp-cut words, which for ever slice asunder time and the broad-backed moors.

From Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf

Music without the syllabling of words—yet breathing worship, and with the spirit of piety filling all the Night-Heavens.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson

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