Example sentences for: lilting

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

  • The lilting rhythms and pronunciations of each regional Indian language are characteristic of the Inglish spoken there.

  • Rap returns us to the same sprawling prolixity as 1890s ballads--and 12-verse story songs, whether they're lilting waltzes or numbingly hard-core, are rarely distinguished as music . Almost all turn-of-the-century blockbusters have the simplest of tonal structures.

  • "Liven up a crowd, or a Klan rally in the senator's case, with the smooth, lilting sound of a banjo."

  • Whether he is relating one in his native Gaelic or in the lilting English that he learned at school, you can almost hear the sough of the sea on far-off, never-to-be-seen-again Hebridean machairs as he speaks.


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