syllable

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

"We went through each word and each syllable to make sure that the pronunciation was perfect for Bilquis," she said.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 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

The syllable bounces around in my chest and I like it.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

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

By rephrasing melodies, throwing in slang, using nonsense syllables, embracing scatting, and making it seem as if he was speaking directly to you, he changed the way people sang and thought about vocal performances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026

He looked at the subway map and announced that at some point during their stay, he'd maybe take her to the Louvre, which he pronounced as having two distinct syllables.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

“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

Yea, hath my heart become for Love a lyre, And he hath syllabled thy name, and I Fill in each silence with a song; aspire To rival in my rapture Euterpe.

From His Lady of the Sonnets by Robert W. Norwood

Concurrent in time and cause was the invasion of the ten syllabled rhymed couplet, which, in place of the old diversified measures, took possession—off the stage—of our poetry.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various

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

Several of the little chance phrases, the merest atoms of exclamation here and there, will still be borne in mind as having had an intense flavour of fun about them, as syllabled in the Reading.

From Charles Dickens as a Reader by Charles Foster Kent

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

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

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

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

Oh, weary women, syllabling brokenly His precious promises, patient, untiring watcher, whose tired feet have grown weary of the 'burden and heat of the day,' wait 'God's time!'

From Clemence The Schoolmistress of Waveland by Retta Babcock