How To Use polysyllable In A Sentence
- For all their - almost - excess of expression, the lines are cadenced and paid out in a sort of listening rhythm, a very personal, measured gather and tumble of polysyllables, after the unhearing jack-hammer blast of the early poems.
- So far as I know, this particular Finnish polysyllable never made it into any of Tolkien's languages.
- Even on radio, their rhetorical style sounds windy, verbose, addicted to polysyllables for their own sake.
- Right alongside of this are vocabulary choices – go with the polysyllable or the Anglo-Saxon four letter version? 2007 May « Hyperpat’s HyperDay
- He spoke in sentences that clocked in at a grade-school level, the speed of delivery was lugubrious, or perhaps aimed at the part of the audience that processes the occasional polysyllable rather slowly. Discourse.net: The Speeches
- They are all found in botanical works under long, clumsy, Latin appellations, very little fitted for every-day uses, just like the plants of our gardens, half of which are only known by long-winded Latin polysyllables, which timid people are afraid to pronounce. Rural Hours
- Gary Sauer-Thompson asks about ‘Anzacs, regionalism and national identity’, with powerful illustrations to break up his challenging polysyllables.
- In the background I overhear Tom and Trisha exchanging a conversation in melodious polysyllables.
- We are like that only Indian English, with its fascination for the polysyllable and the poetic, has a special flavor of... Archive 2008-09-01
- The Daily Mail, high on moral tone, low on polysyllables?
