Example sentences for: rhythmical

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

  • In VERBATIM [I, 1 and I, 2], respectively, Roger Wescott and Paul Lloyd, discussed rhyming, rhythmical, or alliterative “word chains,” otherwise known as “coordinates” or “binomials” and “trinomials,” which exist not only in English but in other languages as well.

  • These perhaps quondam ad hoc expressions, now part and parcel of our respective daily languages, adhere to the same general rhythmical and phonological rules as the nonsense words in the magical texts.

  • For example: kith and kin, wrack and ruin ; in German: mit Kind und Kegel, drauf und dran ; in French: sain et sauf . Alongside such fixed combinations, which seem to adhere to their own rhythmic and phonetic rules, are the playful, nonsensical, purely rhythmical and melodious formulations, which distinctly recall the ancient incantatory cantillations characteristic of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman and latterday hocus pocus.

  • Aside from the linguistic challenges they pose, these ancient artificial, noncewords, with their sonorous, cantillating, rhyming, and rhythmical variations on phonetic themes, have intrigued and fascinated scholars who try to divine the rules governing their formation.

  • Some are filled with seeds for shaking (maracas), others notched on the outside for rhythmical scraping (güiro).


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