syllabically
- a word derived from syllabic.
Example Sentences
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At times, recitative passages were syllabically crowded, their cadences a bit overburdened.
From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2021
This was always five lines in length, constructed syllabically 5, 7, 5, 7, 7, or thirty-one syllables in all.
From Japanese Prints by Lathrop, Dorothy Pulis
Here the verse is reduced to its barest constituents; every line is, syllabically as well as accentually, of equal length; and the lines run in pairs, without one double rhyme throughout.
From An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Symons, Arthur
I caught myself laughing, syllabically, and shrugging my shoulders, fitfully.
From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by Townsend, George Alfred
The only effect which the discovery of such impositions produced upon this saturnine personage was, to extort an ejaculation of "Prodigious!" or "Very facetious!" pronounced syllabically, but without moving a muscle of his own countenance.
From Guy Mannering by Scott, Walter, Sir
