Dactyls
- plural of Dactyl.
Example Sentences
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They aren’t exactly Homeric dactyls, but they seem intended to mirror that ancient literary form, and they give “Everyday Life” an easily digestible if slightly pretentious rhythm.
From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2022
Watch the 2010 documentary “Louder Than a Bomb,” witness inner-city high school spoken-word teams’ fervent investment in articulating their lives, and it’s hard to care if they’ve mastered dactyls and spondees.
From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2017
As rhythmically insidious as the clack of rails under a train, double dactyls have already infected Eastern campuses, and may soon spread cross-country.
From Time Magazine Archive
Christopher Isherwood, that permanently promising young man, seemed during the '30s to be the two dandiest literary dactyls since Joyce's Malachai Mulligan.
From Time Magazine Archive
She nodded slightly at Mapper, then they both launched their dactyls into a nosedive at the waiting trike battalion below.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
