syllable
noun
an uninterrupted segment of speech consisting of a vowel sound, a diphthong, or a syllabic consonant, with or without preceding or following consonant sounds.
unsyllabled
-
a word derived from
syllable.
Example Sentences
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I heard it stop; then followed, with slight intervals, two unsyllabled sounds.
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy
The silence was so long—so pregnant with unsyllabled anguish—that at last I closed a warm hand over his fingers as they clasped the arm-end of his chair.
From Love's Usuries by Louis Creswicke
How often is this divine art the unsyllabled expression of a miserable, or an overjoyed heart.
From Leah Mordecai by Belle K. (Belle Kendrick) Abbott
Bel was hardly equal yet to five-minute Crambo; and besides, she was doing her best; trying to put something clearly into syllables that said itself, unsyllabled, to her.
From The Other Girls by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
The sound blurred, flowed unsyllabled as a stream, the girl's hand grew light in mine; she was fading, becoming unreal; I saw her eyes like faint stars in a mist.
From The ninth vibration and other stories by L. Adams (Lily Adams) Beck
