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:

Following the directive of William Strunk's immortal “Omit needless words,” one may tape above one's word processor, “Slash excess syllables.”
"NYPD Blue," for instance, would have a rating with more syllables than its title: "TV-14-S,V, L."
] Counting the internal variations, that is seven variants merely for the last two syllables of the word: to see how the first two are pronounced, one must go to the preceding entry, investitive . It does not get any better, either.
Then there's pseudonym , (false name), eponym (named for a person, e.g., sandwich after Lord Sandwich), and acronym (formed from the initial letters or syllables of a group of words, e.g., snafu meaning Situation Normal; All Fouled Up or laser meaning Light Amplification Stimulated Emissions Radiation).
Webster's New World gives this: meaningless syllables that seem to make sense; gibberish.