Example sentences for: syllabic

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

  • Many thousands of items in contemporary urban Japanese usage are adapted English words, nativized by reshaping their syllabic patterns into forms that can be written in katakana symbols and pronounced without difficulty.

  • Coulmas's clear exposition of the history of writing systems traces the development of various kinds of writing systems--ideographic, pictographic, morphemic, syllabic, phonemic, and phonetic--through history, discussing them individually, describing how certain ancient scripts were deciphered, and presenting his cogent arguments for regarding at least some aspects of language through the analysis of writing.

  • Indeed, though it is a matter of degree, I find it difficult to pronounce a word like organism with a syllabic Z\?

  • (In this town, one sure mark of a commercial-turned-residential neighborhood is a syllabic acronym.

  • What I found was that the syllabics occurred only when the preceding sound was a dental or alveolar (d or t); when it was a velar (k or g), there was enough time for a speaker to release a sound which was more like a full schwa than a syllabic.


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