Example Sentences

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Schiff asked Mueller, essentially, what he thought all about all that—and Mueller, however monosyllabically, told him.

From Slate • Jul. 24, 2019

It was his worst performance of the season … until his postgame news conference, where he answered nearly every question dismissively and monosyllabically.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2016

She hesitated only a moment before responding, monosyllabically, “Yes.”

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2015

She pronounced it, as she thought, in the French way, monosyllabically, but without quite getting her tongue round the r.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Somewhere behind her Daddy John and Courant made a noise with skillets and picket pins and spoke a little, a sentence mutteringly dropped and monosyllabically answered.

From The Emigrant Trail by Bonner, Geraldine