Sample Sentences for
staccato
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staccato as in:  played it staccato

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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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    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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    It's all very well for me to think these things, quick as staccato, a jittering of the brain.†  (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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    The train passed over with a great staccato clatter and they all waited until it was past.†  (source)
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    In staccato sentences the woman ordered the young boy to get out of the car.†  (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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    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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    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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    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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