metrically
- a word derived from metrical.
Example Sentences
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Born into a family racked by childhood death, insolvency and mental illness, she compensated for the instability by sticking, metrically, to a measured poetic tranquillity that some today might call severe.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 26, 2020
The cliche holds that the social media platforms administer social approval in metrically precise doses.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2019
The songs have more harmonic complexity and aren’t as confined metrically as they usually are by his propulsive rhythm-guitar style.
From Slate ● May 18, 2017
Tenniel chose the carpenter — over a metrically acceptable butterfly or baronet — to be the walrus’s oyster-slaying companion.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2015
He has a metrically organised rhythmic structure, able to support the shape of the words of a poem, successfully allowing important stress syllables or rhymes to fall at the appropriate point in the music.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
