How to Use syllable in a Sentence

syllable

noun

• The first syllable of the word “doctor” is given stress.
• The word “doctor” has two syllables.
• Keweenaw Put the long E sound in the first syllable, not the second.
  — Brian Manzullo, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2018
• The syllables hung in the air as people waited for someone to walk up to the stage.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
• Now that was a different syllable, not a whole word, a third of a word.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2023
• In the script, her name was Chloris, which didn't match the syllable count or rhyme with the female body part in question.
  — Marc Freeman, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2018
• So, the sounds and syllables in lyrics are uttered on or in between the beats with emphasis in all the right places.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2019
• But the Classic is bringing a lot more than just a ton of syllables to Canton.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 31 Aug. 2019
• On one call, the person on the other end said that the phone was sometimes cutting off the last syllable of my sentences.
  — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 6 Feb. 2023
• The sound of a doorknob turning, and the knowledge of what the first syllable of a voice will sound like as soon as the person takes the initial step into the room.
  — Bob Greene, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2021
• Many of Keef’s lines end with him holding the last syllable of the last word and slowly dropping the pitch, as if the vocal were falling off a cliff.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 19 July 2019
• Albanality, a friend of mine says, but the syllables don’t work out.
  — Elisa Albert, Longreads, 7 May 2018
• Nearly 11 years old, Evan cannot decode a word with more than two syllables.
  — Caryn M. Sullivan, Twin Cities, 13 Oct. 2019
• Then, the species should evolve larger syllable repertoires over time.
  — Cristina Robinson, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2019
• Ruiz Zafón was one of those artists who worried over every syllable.
  — Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2021
• Two syllables and all women should be on the receiving end of it: respect.
  — Roxana Becerril, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• Every syllable is hard-won, but then a mental dam breaks and the word plops out: night, forest, mother.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 25 May 2020
• Guesses at sounds and syllable counts were no more likely to be right in a TOT state than otherwise.
  — Matthew Hutson, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
• As usual in these games, the first syllable is appropriate, the second needs to be tweaked.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2021
• The syllables in their names held memories and told stories.
  — Glynn Pogue, Vogue, 13 July 2018
• Brooks puts a rude, glorious spin on the last syllable, then struts around, high-fiving her girls in triumph.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
• Kyé7e taught me to wrap untrained cheek, tongue, and throat muscles around vowel-less syllables.
  — Julian Brave Noisecat, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2019
• On her little brother’s birthday, Mandy can barely form the syllables to sing when his cake is brought out.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 27 July 2019
• Otarbai spent hours in their cell teaching Koksebek the songs by heart, one syllable at a time.
  — Ben Mauk, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2021
• The more Berninger held his notes, the longer the vowels got, leaving fewer syllables in a line and thus less space for the jocosity and mystery of his words.
  — James Robins, Vulture, 1 May 2023
• Out came a terrible mess of syllables that would never fool me.
  — Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 17 July 2023
• This change adds a syllable to the end of the English pronunciation.
  — Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023
• Her voice, able to wring an entire diary's worth of highs and lows from a single syllable, remains the focal point, but it's framed in new ways.
  — Maura Johnston, EW.com, 19 Nov. 2021
• McFarlane raised his hands to break down the syllables of his top-secret device.
  — David Betancourt, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
• LLMs function on the basic principle of predicting the next word or syllable in a phrase.
  — Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024