How To Use Monosyllabic In A Sentence
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He was clearly out-of-place, the only one in a tie, and as monosyllabic as a teenager during most of the persiflage.
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One particular quirk of syntax occurs remarkably often in both poems: duplication of a monosyllabic word with asyndeton, within a line.
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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.
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A movie theatre concession girl, Debbie, meets the store clerk at a laundromat and tries to make awkward, one-sided, monosyllabic conversation.
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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
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Chinese is monosyllabic, Japanese is polysyllabic; Japanese verbs, adjectives and adverbs inflect, whereas they don't in Chinese.
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Georges' wife, who works for a successful editor, is concerned: not least for their monosyllabic son, Pierrot, a young swimming champ.
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In the end we resorted to telegraphic, monosyllabic emails when we absolutely had to communicate with each other.
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Another way is Old School—unsmiling, monosyllabic, The Rock in Early Terminator mode.
'Five': A Series Wakes Up at the Wheel
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Dried beef strips, garnished with watercress from the fringes of the spring, and monosyllabic responses from Touchstone.
SABRIEL
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Show your personality, be engaging and avoid monosyllabic answers.
The Sun
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Hmong is monosyllabic and tonal, meaning that it consists mainly of one-syllable words and that the tone of a word affects meaning.
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Speaking clearly and confidently in sentences rather than monosyllabic grunts makes an enormous difference.
Times, Sunday Times
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Owen had been very short with him, his answers to Sam's questions almost monosyllabic.
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Density is thus largely a function of word stock and reflects at this stage in Coolidge's work an affinity for monosyllabic words, particularly those that couple long vowels or diphthongs with consonant blends.
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The first two lines, containing only monosyllabic words, mix a sing-song dimeter with a grim subject matter.
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He gives monosyllabic answers to the simplest of questions in a vain attempt to close down any area of questioning about his public life.
The Sun
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‘So he's what's made you so monosyllabic,’ she commented.
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He's also under the impression that the word ‘dis’ evolved because ‘we are increasingly monosyllabic.’
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That the language contained a very large number of monosyllabic words is, however, certain; and as phonetism is necessarily syllabic, we may assume that the earliest Egyptian scribes had a rich mine of syllabic forms to draw upon.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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On examination, he was anxious, diaphoretic, and monosyllabic.
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Giving pretentious or monosyllabic answers results in a very dull piece of TV.
The Sun
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The first two lines, containing only monosyllabic words, mix a sing-song dimeter with a grim subject matter.
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Sino-Tibetan languages are distinguished from western language families by two main traits: isolating or monosyllabic characters and the use of tones.
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Both monosyllabic and polysyllabic words representing closed, silent-e, and vowel digraph or diphthong syllable patterns are presented.
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I would have sensed if there had been any anxiety, but it was only the night before the race that he began to be monosyllabic.
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He grunted a monosyllabic reply.
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Sadly, this monosyllabically narrated featurette adds nothing to one's insight of the film.
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Like other languages of the Sino-Tibetan group, Burmese is monosyllabic.
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A succession of books followed, mostly easy readers that told tales of the Revolutionary War through colorful pictures and monosyllabic words.
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We listed a few words that we claimed were just exceptions to the claim that monosyllabic adjectives inflect, and we included wrong on that list.
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There are not very many monosyllabic English nouns that have successfully resisted being verbed, but faith is one of them.
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So I eventually called up the helpline, and the monosyllabic customer advisor at the end of the phone informed me that there was indeed a delay.
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Having inspected the larder, Mary decided to prepare a steak pudding and when Bertha's monosyllabic husband, Davy, took a second helping her fate was sealed.
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She shifted her weight and looked at the ceiling. ‘Well, for one I guess I could try and not be completely closed off and monosyllabic.
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Firstly, Carroll is an unreliable waste-of-space who never turns up for things, is always surrounded by mates, and only engages in banter or is monosyllabic and unforthcoming in his one-to-ones with Allen.
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Africa, speak a polysynthetic language, and _per contra_, that the Otomis of Mexico have a monosyllabic one like the Chinese.
The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
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The Coptic is an uncultivated and formal tongue, with monosyllabic roots and _rude inflexions, totally different_ from the neighbouring languages of Syria and Arabia, _totally opposite_ to the copious and polished Sanscrit.
Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850
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The opening couplet divides ten monosyllabic words evenly between two lines.
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The language has innumerable binomial compounds and collocations, as well as many "sesquisyllabic" or polysyllabic words of Khmer or Indic origin that contain unstressed vowels, so that the phonological texture of the language is very different from that of uncompromisingly monosyllabic languages like Chinese and Vietnamese.
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The intercom gave only a monosyllabic grunt.
Bomber
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Jo answered, spitting out each monosyllabic word.
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I think I'll stick to monosyllabic and disyllabic words today.
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He would give only monosyllabic replies, such as " Yes " and " No ".
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He is permanently monosyllabic unless the subject happens to be narrow-gauge North American railways, and he never uses a word where a silent, dismissive glare would do.
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I chat away, only to be met with monosyllabic answers.
Times, Sunday Times
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This was a lot of theory to put on a hitherto monosyllabic himbo's shoulders.
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And monosyllabic- `yes mem, no mem" in response to her orders.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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In the corridor there were orders given and monosyllabic assents.
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As you know he had a stroke in 1985 and lost the ability to speak, apart from a few dozen monosyllabic words like yes and no, and other basic simple things.
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This is a book of footballers when they were stars and not the monosyllabic, monotone ‘celebrities’ that exist today
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Chinese is a monosyllabic language, where a single sound represents one word.
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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.
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Phonic and emphatic before actively phatic, making noise before contact, the monosyllabic sigh at the core of all Romantic sonority is a phonic surge before it can be coded as a monosyllabic signal in some discursive circuit with the
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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He tried multiple times to draw me into a conversation but I only responded with monosyllabic answers.
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Both monosyllabic and polysyllabic words representing closed, silent-e, and vowel digraph or diphthong syllable patterns are presented.
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With Shelley's drawing in English on those interchangeable speech sounds "O" and "Oh," his ode momentarily arrests that move into literalization, into discourse, or pretends to, in a cross-lexical alphabetic suspension — even in the very fashioning of its first signifying transit; and even in the equivocation of its monosyllabic letter sounds.
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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He answered her questions with monosyllabic responses.
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Either way, give me this lot over a bunch of monosyllabic scowlers any day.
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It used to be that whenever I called such places, I would be greeted by people who sounded like monosyllabic, grumpy teenagers.
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The attention was a lot to deal with for an introvert such as Lemaitre, and his first interviews verged on the monosyllabic.
Christophe Lemaitre, France's premier blanc, seeks grand cru status
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The end result can sometimes resemble a conversation between two monosyllabic adolescents.
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Most who spoke (and many offered only monosyllabic answers), claimed they intended to change their ways or had learned their lesson.
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Monosyllabic words in want of form, very important language best fit the existence of transformation.
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This involves the names of social groups that are derived from monosyllabic adjectives, like black and gay.
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The attention was a lot to deal with for an introvert such as Lemaitre, and his first interviews verged on the monosyllabic.
Christophe Lemaitre, France's premier blanc, seeks grand cru status
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Either way, give me this lot over a bunch of monosyllabic scowlers any day.
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Chinese is monosyllabic, Japanese is polysyllabic; Japanese verbs, adjectives and adverbs inflect, whereas they don't in Chinese; and Japanese has a system of postpositions that Chinese doesn't.
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I am a monosyllabic girl every time I'm near him.
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I think I'll stick to monosyllabic and disyllabic words today.
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Well, that's great, I told myself, I managed to squeeze about seven monosyllabic words into that lovely conversation.
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Chinese is monosyllabic, Japanese is polysyllabic; Japanese verbs, adjectives and adverbs inflect, whereas they don't in Chinese; and Japanese has a system of postpositions that Chinese doesn't.
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‘One is monosyllabic, the other tetrasyllable,’ Spindrift begins.
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‘You're usually not so monosyllabic,’ she told me earnestly as we walked.
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Georges' wife, who works for a successful editor, is concerned: not least for their monosyllabic son, Pierrot, a young swimming champ who sports an unlikely curly mullet.
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The hiatus is commonest in monosyllabic words, or words ending in a short syllable followed by _m_, making the first syllable of an arsis resolved into two shorts.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
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“The river-nymphs, as daughters of Oceanus, and thus of immortal parentage, are bound to possess organs of more than mortal keenness; but, as you say, the song was not so bad — erudite, as well as prettily conceived — and, saving for a certain rustical simplicity and monosyllabic baldness, smacks rather of the forests of Castaly than those of Torridge.”
Westward Ho!
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The assumption that each character represents an independent meaningful syllable leads to the conclusion that each character represents a monosyllabic word.
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Why are there so many syllables in the word monosyllabic?
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Ralph grew increasingly monosyllabic as the evening progressed.
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Sino-Tibetan languages are distinguished from western language families by two main traits: isolating or monosyllabic characters and the use of tones.
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Unlike Italian, stress is not required for monosyllabic and bisyllabic words; and unlike Spanish, stress is always assigned on the penultimate syllable of multisyllabic words.
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He's very monosyllabic, and could put to sleep an over stimulated mule.
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Firstly, Carroll is an unreliable waste-of-space who never turns up for things, is always surrounded by mates, and only engages in banter or is monosyllabic and unforthcoming in his one-to-ones with Allen.
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Sanskrit is built in such a way that virtually every word in the language can be derived from a root, a monosyllabic sound unit having a general significance in the sphere of action.
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They replied to his questions with monosyllabic, embarrassed answers.
Calcio: A History of Italian Football
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The assumption that each character represents an independent meaningful syllable leads to the conclusion that each character represents a monosyllabic word.
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In Mexico City, where kidnapping occurs more frequently than in Iraq, security for the rich is essential and so the monosyllabic Creasy is hired as a bodyguard for eight-year-old Pita (Fanning).
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He's dead certain and often nearly monosyllabic.
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By contrast, this character is a Latino version of Hawk, the darkly menacing, monosyllabic backup man he created for his Spenser detective series.
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This is the story of violence, betrayal, love, and survival told in a series of monosyllabic guttural sounds, set against the backdrop of volcanic eruptions and pterodactyls.
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The vocalizations of falconids are simple, repeated monosyllabic calls, described variously as cackles, chatters, squawks, croaks, wails and whines.
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We listed a few words that we claimed were just exceptions to the claim that monosyllabic adjectives inflect, and we included wrong on that list.
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Our monosyllabic waiter briefly sprung into life when it came to choosing from the wine list.
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Surly, monosyllabic drivers aside, it's a minor miracle if the bus actually rolls up at all!
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He could be slow, gruff and monosyllabic.
Times, Sunday Times
