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:

In opting for the gerunds, one often saves a syllable or more, but the specific, continuous action of a gerund may not be so attractive to a society fuzzily focused on process.
Jeep and veep , each containing only one syllable, are easier to pronounce than their ancestral abbreviations.
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).
Here, one may observe the opposite happening: when people wish to spruce up an old word, they add a syllable.
Presumably, urinal (- i - as in nine ) is now also stressed on the first syllable.