Sentence examples similar to emphatic syllable from inspiring English sources
By the second chorus she was exploding her part loudly and playfully, leaving her band to follow their script as she extemporized a torrent of loose, emphatic syllables scattered across the scale.
The latest incarnation of "All Along the Watchtower" had Mr. Dylan breaking its verses into emphatic two-syllable bursts; it was no less foreboding and eloquent.
Their African syllables are emphatic, often repetitive.
First, the person has to understand the literal meaning of what someone says, and then the listener has to detect the components of sarcasm: a wider range of pitch, greater emphatic stress, briefer pauses, lengthened syllables and intensified loudness relative to sincere speech, the researchers wrote in the study.
They're cute musical teaching toys for television-weaned grownups in which every syllable is asserted with the emphatic cheeky clarity of a friendly clown teaching the alphabet.
Reduplication, the repetition of words or syllables to create new or emphatic meanings, is common (e.g., pakapaka 'suddenly bursting out laughing,' garagara 'clean, neat, nice').
His message was emphatic.
Ms. Martinez nodded, emphatic.
