Example sentences for: staccato

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

  • Opening with a female silhouette walking away from a punitive "personnel" sign, it follows her unsteady progress down a flight of stairs and uses a staccato colloquy between her colleagues to dramatize the injustice:

  • Exactly what is "soft focus" about the bank teller who gets shot full in the face or Gene Hackman's agonizing death throes or Bonnie and Clyde 's final, staccato "dance of death"?

  • Inspired by Williams, Davis adopted a more percussive style of improvising, throwing aggressive, staccato darts at the rhythm section.

  • and then, to staccato music and pulsing visuals, "but the facts tell a different story."

  • Run Lola Run should, by rights, have commas in its title, but commas would be false to its tempo, which is alternately whooshing and staccato.


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