Example sentences for: cadences

How can you use “cadences” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Today, motor scooters often drown the sound of playing children, and mobile phones are heard far more frequently than the haunting cadences of the bazouki.

  • When she played Dorothy Parker in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994), she faithfully reproduced the writer's vocal cadences at the expense of such trifles as variety and intelligibility.

  • At times he speaks in short, halting phrases, pausing between the most unlikely words, and then he'll rush through a series of phrases so quickly that he'll nearly run out of breath and almost gasp out the last words--rhythm as characterization, his cadences revealing the contours of his troubled spirit as concisely as his words.

  • The coinages and cadences of the Tyndale Bible--"eat, drink, and be merry"; "a fool's paradise"; "fight the good fight"; "suffer the children"; "the salt of the earth"; "in his right mind"; "the powers that be"--and of the King James Version have for three centuries served both as psychic libretto and as percussion section for English speakers everywhere.

  • "Bring the strange-ah to me late-ah," she commands in sexy Martian Queen cadences that will stir the loins of Flash Gordon fans everywhere.


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