Example sentences for: syllables

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

  • ] 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.

  • The possibilities for representing English with a language of only forty-seven syllables are not that numerous, and the rules are very consistent.

  • When Y2K is analyzed as poetry, one sees a satisfying alternation of long and short syllables: a diphthong (Y), followed by a monothong (2), and a final, concluding diphthong (K).

  • Thus, we have a verse form like haiku, in which the totality of the poem is condensed into only seventeen syllables.

  • Folderol (or falderal ) is drawn from the meaningless syllables sung in the refrains of many English folksongs, “fol-de-rol-deray.”


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