Sentence examples for breaking words from inspiring English sources

Her voice bounced between girlish playfulness and adult bluesiness, sometimes breaking words into nonverbal sounds.

In particular, it calls for more whole-class teaching and the systematic teaching of phonics (breaking words down into their constituent sounds).

In "Phonics" and "Lick Fat Boys," both from 1980, he plays games with language: breaking words into phonemes and rearranging them, physically with letters on a wall and orally by recitation.

And in "Why Did I Choose You?," from the play "The Yearling," Mr. Henderson sang haltingly, like a patient marksman for the perfect note, breaking words into clean halves of different pitches.

Why, when we're driven to be lyrical, are we gratified by familiar patterns, formal patterns made by breaking words into syllables, structural patterns made by conjoining words with other words?

Cues will include all, or a subset of, modelling, tapping and breaking words word up into parts and then putting them together again.

Only four months ago, he did it again, breaking word of the first federal court ruling in the Elian Gonzalez case.

The hyphen is a short bit, used in compound words and to break words between syllables when they run over the end of a line.

These paintings conflate the act of seeing, reading and even speaking as you tease and sound out the meanings of their run-on or awkwardly broken words.

The film played in Cannes with only what he called "Navajo" English – broken words vaguely conveying the gist of the French, German and Russian mumbled on screen.

Linguists break words into clusters — groups of consonants that have no intervening vowels.