Example sentences for: staccato

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

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

  • 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:

  • 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.

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

  • There are also different varieties of flamenco dance (the tango, fandango, farruca, and zambra) performed to the staccato rhythms and counter-rhythms of the castanets, hand clapping (palmadas), and finger snapping (pitos), as well as furious heel-drumming (zapateado).


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