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The sound of the waves crashing on the shore had a comforting cadence.cadence = rhythm or recurring pattern
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She speaks with a halting, mumbled cadence.cadence = rhythm
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Defensive players may not interfere with the quarterback's signals by making sounds in the cadence of the offensive signals.cadence = rhythm or recurring pattern
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Her voice had the same slow, neutral cadence as a bedtime book. (source)cadence = rhythm
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The bad news is that my hands prevent me from using either cane or wheelchair, so I must now march to my own unique cadence to keep upright. (source)cadence = recurring pattern of movements
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Grover played a sharp tweet-tweet cadence on his reed pipes. (source)cadence = rhythm or recurring pattern of sounds
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The voices talked of everything, there was nothing they could not talk about, he knew from the very cadence and motion and continual stir of curiosity and wonder in them. (source)cadence = rhythm
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Not in the Capitol accent, but in the rougher cadences of home.† (source)
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The cadenced rain was muffled here, like the drumming for a funeral cortege passing out on the highway.† (source)
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The latest shield under it was Lionel's—argent, a bend gules distinguished with some sort of label of cadency.† (source)
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"Caitlin," Rogerson would say, and I'd listen so hard, trying to tell just by the cadence what might happen when we were alone. (source)cadence = rhythm or recurring pattern of sounds
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And the way be sometimes spoke, with unfamiliar cadences and phrases that better fit the style of a turn-of-the-century novel than that of a twenty-first-century classroom.† (source)
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The arrangement gave each rower when at work ample room, if he timed his movements with those of his associates, the principle being that of soldiers marching with cadenced step in close order.† (source)
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Each of them wore a silk jupon blazoned with the chevron and the three thistles, distinguished in the case of the younger brothers with various labels of cadency, so that they looked like a hand of playing cards spread out.† (source)
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When Loren's voice began reciting the poem, he, too, echoed the cadence of the music, just like my body was, and it felt like we were making magic together. (source)cadence = rhythm (recurring pattern of sounds)
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But beneath that twang, if you listen closely, you can hear the cadences of an older, refined speech pattern.† (source)
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