How To Use trisyllable In A Sentence
- When the word ‘scientist’ was first spoken in 1833, it was meant as a joke: its coinage first drew laughs and later was attacked as ‘an American barbarous trisyllable.’
- _Monosyllables_ are generally compared by adding _er_ and _est; dissyllables, trisyllables_, &c. by _more_ and _most_; as, mild, milder, mildest; frugal, more frugal, most frugal; virtuous, more virtuous, most virtuous. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
- The name is not Iroquois -- yet it may be, too -- a soft, gracious trisyllable stolen from the Lenape. The Reckoning
- A disyllable or disyllabic word has two syllables, a trisyllable or trisyllabic word has three.
- Each line ends with a trisyllable or a tetrasyllable, with dissyllabic rhyme running through the quatrain. The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints
- [52] A trisyllable, as in strictness it ought to be. A History of Elizabethan Literature
- The signal of the middle syllable of each trisyllable pronunciation is then extracted to make a synthesis unit.
- Monosyllables, dissyllables, and trisyllables had each their distinct time. The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai
- Thus, if the first line end with an accented monosyllable, the second line will end with a dissyllabic word accented on its first syllable, or if the first line end with a dissyllable accented on its penultimate the second line will end with a trisyllable accented on its ante-penultimate. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
- Exercises involving spondees and trisyllables in isolation and in simple sentences, as well as picture-based sentence identification exercises are included.
