lilting

How To Use lilting In A Sentence

• Chan's fierce power in the opening Allegro kept the performance lilting - borne aloft on wings of song.
• Short and stocky, a shopworn wool sweater carelessly worn backwards on occasion, Bob displayed an almost pixyish quality that was only enhanced by his lilting, Gaelic turn of phrase and charming absent-mindedness.
• If you like standard contemporary Irish folk sung by a lilting soprano, here you go.
• He had a pleasant, lilting northern accent.
• Teasingly hermetic, liltingly musical, these are not so much poems to decode or pull apart in search of a precept or motto, as poems to sink into or wander through, enjoying a cavalcade of sensory impressions.
• It goes lilting into cloudless heaven like someone who is chosen for gallantry.
• Just compare 'verboten' with their lilting 'proibido.' Mike Arkus: Photophobia in Africa (or I am a Camera) -- From Menacingly Scowling, Weapons-Wielding Troops to Screaming, Fist-Shaking Scrums of Your Average Citizens
• He doesn't so much speak to you as he lulls you in lilting, mellifluous tones.
• Souvenir's packed with ethereal-sounding tracks that show off the immense range of Thirsk's lilting vocals.
• a light lilting voice like a silver bell