Words similar to syllable

Example sentences for: syllable

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

Dr. Basil Cottle, a scholar at the University of Bristol, in his useful little book, The Plight of English , devotes nearly four pages to it, describing it at the beginning as a deplorable little syllable.
Only two words have more than one syllable: Stevens follows to extremes the old schoolhouse rule that short words work better than long ones.
Bartoli's style of fussing over every syllable has been called twitchy, belabored, and self-consciously adorable.
Among the exceptions are Jesus', Moses', and names of more than one syllable whose unaccented endings are pronounced eez, as in Euripides' or Xerxes'.
The old West Sussex tendency is to add an extra syllable to monosyllabic words, so cow becomes cayoo, or fowl is pronounced fewoll.