nonsense syllable

A country that is serious about health reform would not take a limited, valued resource and waste it on nonsense like this.

Allcraft winced, as every syllable made known the speaker's actual strength—his own dependence and utter weakness.

He placed the paper on the table, and, ere he read a syllable, he laboured to compose himself.

He spoke with an animation and earnestness that gave an exaggerated importance to every syllable he uttered.

In some English schools the first syllable in “panis” sounds “pan,” in others “pain.”

David had replied, in that short tone of self-sufficiency which conveys so much more than the syllable would seem to warrant.