Sentence examples for mostly in monosyllables from inspiring English sources

Lana Tisdel answered mostly in monosyllables: "Yeah . . .

Dressed in black and speaking mostly in hushed monosyllables, Mr. Rock described himself as the victim of a 1999 shakedown attempt by a model who he said had falsely accused him of paternity.

Mr. Gordon and the dancer Valda Setterfield, who is also his wife, engage in a running joke of a conversation in which she chatters wistfully and he answers in mostly grumpy monosyllables.

They celebrate in monosyllables.

Conversation in riddles, or in monosyllables.

During the judge's interrogation, he answered in monosyllables.

Until then I had only heard him speak in monosyllables.

The kid was trying to speak in monosyllables only, for long stretches.

He spoke in monosyllables, and I had to press him constantly for more details.

-- and their subjects, some clearly nervous, others feigning nonchalance, reply in monosyllables: No, no, no.

Lieutenant Waters, an inexorable and stoic hero — a Navy lifer who speaks in monosyllables — bears some sort of mysterious psychic wound.