SYLLABLES in a Sentence
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53 example sentences for SYLLABLES, such as:
1. Put the stress on the second syllable.
2. He studies too much for words of four syllables.
3. I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.
4. Not a syllable had ever reached her of Miss Darcy's meditated elopement.
5. Gabriel smiled at the three syllables she had given his surname and glanced at her.
2. He studies too much for words of four syllables.
3. I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.
4. Not a syllable had ever reached her of Miss Darcy's meditated elopement.
5. Gabriel smiled at the three syllables she had given his surname and glanced at her.
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Meanings and Examples of SYLLABLES
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syllable
n. a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme
Classic Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1 The syllables of the word Araby were called to me through the silence in which my soul luxuriated and cast an Eastern enchantment over me.
2 It passed slowly out of sight; but still he heard in his ears the laborious drone of the engine reiterating the syllables of her name.
3 Gabriel smiled at the three syllables she had given his surname and glanced at her.
4 I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.
5 "Blessed be the name of the Lord," the solemn syllables rang out slowly one after another, setting the air quivering with waves of sound.
6 The first syllables he uttered had the effect to cause his listeners to raise themselves in attitudes of respectful attention.
7 The women suspended their labors, to catch such syllables as unguardedly fell from the lips of the consulting warriors.
8 Yeobright's manner had been so quiet, he had uttered so few syllables since his reappearance, that Venn imagined him resigned.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
9 That was the word the man uttered, and of which his son only caught the last two syllables.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
Context Highlight In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
10 He studies too much for words of four syllables.
11 They might have torn out his nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable name, Cosette, was composed.
12 The divining party again laid their heads together: apparently they could not agree about the word or syllable the scene illustrated.
13 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.
14 Not a syllable had ever reached her of Miss Darcy's meditated elopement.
15 to Miss Lydia Bennet, without there being a syllable said of her father, or the place where she lived, or anything.
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.