monosyllabic

How To Use monosyllabic In A Sentence

• He was clearly out-of-place, the only one in a tie, and as monosyllabic as a teenager during most of the persiflage.
• One particular quirk of syntax occurs remarkably often in both poems: duplication of a monosyllabic word with asyndeton, within a line.
• As they continue to develop, children learn to segment polysyllabic words into syllables as they approach kindergarten age and monosyllabic words into phonemes around first grade.
• A movie theatre concession girl, Debbie, meets the store clerk at a laundromat and tries to make awkward, one-sided, monosyllabic conversation.
• This influence of the chief accent affects also combinations of two monosyllabic words which make an iambus, and combinations like _ego illi_, _age ergo_, in which the second syllable of the second word is elided. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
• Chinese is monosyllabic, Japanese is polysyllabic; Japanese verbs, adjectives and adverbs inflect, whereas they don't in Chinese.
• Georges' wife, who works for a successful editor, is concerned: not least for their monosyllabic son, Pierrot, a young swimming champ.
• In the end we resorted to telegraphic, monosyllabic emails when we absolutely had to communicate with each other.
• Another way is Old School—unsmiling, monosyllabic, The Rock in Early Terminator mode. 'Five': A Series Wakes Up at the Wheel
• Dried beef strips, garnished with watercress from the fringes of the spring, and monosyllabic responses from Touchstone. SABRIEL