Sample Sentences forstaccato (editor-reviewed)
staccato as in: played it staccato
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I love the music's staccato notes.staccato = music: separating notes by cutting them short and crisp
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The man was walking with the staccato steps of someone carrying a load too heavy for him. (source)staccato = short and distinct
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A shot. And another. And another, rumbling, staccato. A man began to scream... (source)staccato = short and crisp sounds
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He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. (source)staccato = sounds that are short and crisp
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He heard it again; then it was cut short by another noise, crisp, staccato. (source)staccato = short and crisp (describing the relationship of sounds to one another)
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It flashed again and was followed by a rapid staccato of gunfire.† (source)
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It's all very well for me to think these things, quick as staccato, a jittering of the brain.† (source)
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Whispers ride the air, and I think I hear the piercing staccato of wild laughter.† (source)
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We were getting sound in staccato bursts.† (source)
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I took off after him, my helmet whapping against the roof in a painful staccato.† (source)
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He recited this in staccato fashion as he had a million times before.† (source)
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Without asking any questions, he took her hand and stayed with her, the quiet interrupted only by her occasional staccato breaths.† (source)
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Five streets to the north, a white-haired eighteen-year-old German private named Werner Pfennig wakes to a faint staccato hum.† (source)
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She heard — as if in a recurring nightmare — the pounding on the door, and then the heavy, frighteningly familiar staccato of boots on the kitchen floor.† (source)
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His face was flushed and shiny and his voice very quick, with a strained, staccato quality I knew all too well.† (source)
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The woods echoed with the staccato bursts of automatic weapons and people screaming, but it wasn't computing, like Crisco's head snapping back and the way he flopped into the gray dust like every bone in his body had suddenly turned into Jell-O, the way his killer had swung around in a perfectly executed pirouette with the barrel of the gun flashing in the sunlight.† (source)
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