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Example sentences for: syllable

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292: “Just as the American recalls that French words should be stressed on the final syllable, he recalls, or thinks he recalls, that all Spanish words should end with a vowel: sombrero , señorita , noche and so on.
This was an age of exiguous technicality in English as well as Latin and French, an age when the failure of a syllable lost the cause.
I devised what I thought was a useful system for showing syllabification of boldface words in the Collins English Dictionary: places where hyphens could occur were marked by a tiny plus sign (except for spelling hyphens, which always permitted end-of-line hyphens); places that marked syllable breaks but where hyphenation was avoided, were marked by a centered dot:
' To shift fields: art movements, in particular, often identify themselves through the addition of a syllable to a word in common parlance.
In fact, I should doubt that a lazy mouth would bother to add an extra syllable.