How to Use monosyllabic in a Sentence

monosyllabic

adjective

• The movie star was monosyllabic with newspaper reporters.
• What seems to work with a sullen, monosyllabic pre-teen?
  — Ellie Delano, Woman's Day, 13 May 2013
• Mat, 48, spends most of his time tending to things in the basement, speaks in monosyllabic murmurs, and wears Keens and Carhartt.
  — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2022
• Mueller’s halting, monosyllabic style could hardly be described as telegenic and, in this case, the book was better than the movie.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 24 July 2019
• Only Chip fielded the phone calls, awkward, monosyllabic, for fear his mother would overhear and be hurt.
  — Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2021
• There, Smith shed more tears as reporters asked questions between sniffles and snippets of monosyllabic answers in which the former Mount Saint Joseph star blamed himself.
  — Don Markus, baltimoresun.com, 2 Nov. 2019
• Instead of the Greenlandic way – long silences and monosyllabic answers – there comes an outpouring.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 19 Aug. 2019
• There is none of the pouty celebrity I-would-rather-be-doing-anything-other-than-this monosyllabic slouch, nor is every answer punctuated with Sorry-I-have-to-take-this-call.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 27 June 2017
• In 2014, Marvel turned Guardians of the Galaxy, an obscure comic featuring aliens, a talking raccoon and a monosyllabic tree, into a massive hit.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 21 June 2017
• On the other side of the tent, though, Bernhard Hauser, 40, of Burghausen, was hunched over, eyes peeking out from a stack of blankets, offering monosyllabic utterances through clattering teeth as three paramedics kept close watch.
  — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2016
• Now Arnold wanders the house in a jolly monosyllabic stupor, barely able to negotiate a doorknob.
  — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 12 July 2017
• Such a combustible mix of tempers, egos, bald heads and monosyllabic surnames surely warranted a stand-alone entertainment of its own.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
• And there was Shane, an irresistible, monosyllabic lothario, who inspired both ire and emulation.
  — Crispin Long, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2019
• The glam metal formula remains the same across the decades: distorted guitars, melodic choruses, monosyllabic lyrics suitable to chant and sing along.
  — Alan Hernández Pastén, SPIN, 2 Mar. 2023
• Paul wasn't always a monosyllabic loafer on the lookout for easy money, and Mazino reveals the poignant loneliness dwelling inside Danny's sweet, stymied little brother.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2023
• Luckily for him, and for us, the boy is befriended by a monosyllabic goatherd with hardscrabble but successful strategies to survive in this dystopian world of rancid wells and withered lone fig trees.
  — Natalie Serber, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2017
• The past 12 months have been a rollicking time for strange, monosyllabic corporate media rebrandings.
  — Maya Kosoff, The Hive, 3 Apr. 2017
• During the interview, Laurent was a typical 9-year-old, giving short or monosyllabic answers.
  — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2019
• Between Seo’s narrative drawing of repression and Ho’s monosyllabic performance, silence — and the shattering of that silence — becomes a de facto theme.
  — Lila Seidman, Glendale News-Press, 1 Aug. 2019
• Harris said, lowering his voice to mimic the announcer’s dramatic, monosyllabic tone.
  — Billy Witz Sasha Portis, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
• And there remains a whiff of vanity project to the whole franchise, at least since Diesel refashioned it around his character, a monosyllabic, modern-day Robin Hood and benevolent father figure, always willing to selflessly die for his fabled Family.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 17 May 2023
• The series accomplished that, notably, with heroes that were particularly obscure and outlandish, including a talking raccoon and a monosyllabic tree.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 5 May 2023
• For every assessment Hess relayed, Allen offered a monosyllabic response.
  — New York Times, 23 Sep. 2021
• But success has been limited to monosyllabic utterances.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2019
• Facebook commenters were mostly against the sheriff, but also typically monosyllabic.
  — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Voi Scooter companies often seem indistinguishable, with their monosyllabic names (Scoot, Skip, Spin) and identikit hardware.
  — Alison Griswold, Quartz, 16 Dec. 2019
• Josh Brolin plays Royal Abbott, an ornery, monosyllabic cattleman prone to long, monosyllabic dinners with his limitedly functional family.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 9 Oct 2024