Words similar to syllables

Example sentences for: syllables

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

The possibilities for representing English with a language of only forty-seven syllables are not that numerous, and the rules are very consistent.
Well, I do say taken to hospital rather than hospitalized , even though the American term is two syllables shorter.
The Chinese make four syllables of it.
The English equivalent of this German word is spin quantum number . Were it to be spelled *spinquantumnumber or were the German word to be spelled *impuls quantum zahl , people would have other impressions, yet both words have exactly the same number of syllables (five) and letters (seventeen).
Israël is an example which is not seen much any more; Zaïre is seen occasionally; Haïti is common in French, where it is pronounced as three syllables, but the English standard seems to be Haiti (two syllables).