SYLLABLE in a Sentence
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53 example sentences for SYLLABLE, such as:
1. Put the stress on the second syllable.
2. We interchanged that confidence without shaping a syllable.
3. Not a syllable had ever reached her of Miss Darcy's meditated elopement.
4. The otherwise immovable Miss Murdstone laughed contemptuously in one short syllable.
5. She dared me in an emphatic voice to rise from that place, or utter one syllable during the remainder of the day.
2. We interchanged that confidence without shaping a syllable.
3. Not a syllable had ever reached her of Miss Darcy's meditated elopement.
4. The otherwise immovable Miss Murdstone laughed contemptuously in one short syllable.
5. She dared me in an emphatic voice to rise from that place, or utter one syllable during the remainder of the day.
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Meanings and Examples of SYLLABLE
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syllable
n. a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme
Classic Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1 The divining party again laid their heads together: apparently they could not agree about the word or syllable the scene illustrated.
2 Never once in their dialogues did I hear a syllable of regret at the hospitality they had extended to me, or of suspicion of, or aversion to, myself.
3 Not a syllable had ever reached her of Miss Darcy's meditated elopement.
4 to Miss Lydia Bennet, without there being a syllable said of her father, or the place where she lived, or anything.
5 Its effect was most extraordinary; for on first hearing it, Mrs. Bennet sat quite still, and unable to utter a syllable.
6 Her features were so sad, they did not seem hers: she evidently regarded what she had heard as every syllable true.
7 But I was rendered dumb in the middle of the first sentence, by a threat that I should be shown into a room by myself the very next syllable I uttered.
8 His imperial majesty spoke often to me, and I returned answers: but neither of us could understand a syllable.
9 I will take my oath he never dropt a syllable of being tired of her, or of wishing to marry Miss Morton, or any thing like it.
10 She caught every syllable with panting eagerness; her hand, unknowingly to herself, closely pressed her sister's, and tears covered her cheeks.
11 We interchanged that confidence without shaping a syllable.
12 At the coach window, as at the dinner-party, he hovered about us without a moment's intermission, like a great vulture: gorging himself on every syllable that I said to Agnes, or Agnes said to me.
13 The otherwise immovable Miss Murdstone laughed contemptuously in one short syllable.
14 "You set off with the mother and you return with the son," he said, articulating each syllable, as though each were a separate favor he was bestowing.
15 It was the idea also, that this same spermaceti was that quickening humor of the Greenland Whale which the first syllable of the word literally expresses.
Example Sentence:
1 Let me recast this sentence in terms your feeble brain can grasp: in words of one syllable, you are a fool.
2 She dared me in an emphatic voice to rise from that place, or utter one syllable during the remainder of the day.
3 Accent the word "woman"on the first syllable.
4 Put the stress on the second syllable.
5 Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time.