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:

What makes this book such an exemplary piece of work is that I doubt it contains many words of more than one syllable (so to speak).
As mentioned, the pronunciations are British: the variant pronunciation of controversy , in which the stress is on the (shortened) second syllable, is shown, but that is not heard in the US; neither is the given pronunciation of intermediary , which ends \?\ in BE but /\?
Usually, to make a first name into a nickname we just pluck out the most prominent syllable, like Sue from Susan , and either leave it plain or make a diminutive out of it by adding - ie or - y: Susie or Suzy .
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.
Sometimes, even these verbs may be stressed on the first syllable by way of contrasting two actions or conditions, as in, it has de creased, not in creased.