Example sentences for: syllable

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

  • Nor Milton's airy tongues that syllable men's names.

  • He maintains Mayan is a rare form of Slurvian created by adding an extra 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.

  • In some cases, Skeat's irritation stemmed from a reader's failure either to read correspondence that had been published decades earlier or to be intimately familiar with every last syllable of Skeat's seven-volume work on Chaucer.

  • In couplets and the "beheaded" (first syllable omitted) four-foot iambic line, familiar from "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," he speaks his mind directly and eloquently about feeling love ardently when no longer a youth.


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