How To Use Lilting In A Sentence
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He had a pleasant, lilting northern accent.
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Chan's fierce power in the opening Allegro kept the performance lilting - borne aloft on wings of song.
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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.
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If you like standard contemporary Irish folk sung by a lilting soprano, here you go.
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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.
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It goes lilting into cloudless heaven like someone who is chosen for gallantry.
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Just compare 'verboten' with their lilting 'proibido.'
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He doesn't so much speak to you as he lulls you in lilting, mellifluous tones.
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Souvenir's packed with ethereal-sounding tracks that show off the immense range of Thirsk's lilting vocals.
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a light lilting voice like a silver bell
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The lilting notes of Cein's flute filled the air as Edith sat amongst her ladies-in-waiting in her private solar.
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The song started out lilting and slow, just like the original version that I already knew by heart.
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My mother, who gave me this troublesome moniker, pronounces it "car rean" in a lovely lilting Austrian accent.
You Pronounce it "Car In"
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I found my feet dancing to the lilting ragas of Carnatic classical music.
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Her voice was strong and clear, with a lilting quality to it that one might think belonged to a professional vocalist.
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If anything, he sounds more like dad than his siblings with that familiar lilting drawl turning its attention to the political and the personal.
The Sun
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They were jolly nice, and they've got this lilting kind of accent.
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I loved the mixture in myself; the sad Irish laments and the lilting Scottish songs.
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This track, with its lilting verses and gently lifting (sounds like a brassiere, but it isn't) accordion phrase, stays in my head, tranquilizing me.
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What happens when all flags burn together?" he wonders in Jeopardy, over lilting guitar and cheerful trumpets.
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It was a treat to see Buster Brown, an old-time hoofer of Apollo fame, who still has an easy upper body and lilting feet at age 86.
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His face would float in and out between images of ordinary men and women discovering hope, with lilting music in the background.
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Interestingly, the whale songs are rhythmic and lilting, using similar scale patterns found in human music.
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She gave her oath, accent lilting, reading from what looked like a giant plastic placemat on the dispatch box.
Times, Sunday Times
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He walked with a lilting gait, his left Achilles tendon apparently shortened, pulling his left heel up.
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She had dressed for the occasion in a cascade of something filmy and see-through and spoke in a lilting middle-English.
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Andrea began teasing in a lilting sing-song voice, ‘Brandon's got a girlfriend, Brandon's got a girlfriend!’
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Andrea began teasing in a lilting sing-song voice, ‘Brandon's got a girlfriend, Brandon's got a girlfriend!’
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Then to change the atmosphere he played a few festival songs, light and lilting and filling the heart with summer breezes.
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The accent was thick, exotic and lilting, and sounded as if it came from the south.
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The crow's voice was magical and lilting, as if it were playing an instrument rather than talking.
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If you have never heard the lilting song of the linnet, spotted the distinctive plumage of a goldcrest, or waited for the whirring wings of a grey partridge, it is increasingly unlikely that you ever will.
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He was awoken before dawn by the strange lilting sound of Ottoman bugles, and after prayers and a breakfast of melons he set off behind the Mutawwif towards the Sacred Mosque.
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Not everything was high drama, though, and the lilting dance rhythms of the Romanza and the saltarello of the finale had a warm and, by now, rather welcome, exuberance.
Royal String Quartet
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Simple, lilting melodies that cut the conversation dead and had the hardest of men staring deep into the glowing embers.
Man of Honour
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It had a soft, lilting quality to it, like somebody whose mother made them practice singing constantly.
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Sassy seems to be largely benevolent as most reports feature his lilting, sing-song voice drifting through the swamp.
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She started to read in her impeccably clear, lilting, Bible-reading voice, enunciating each word c-r-i-s-p-l-y and pronouncing the biblical names perfectly: Then it happened in the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel, and they destroyed the sons of Ammon and besieged Rabbah.
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But if Hamasyan likes embroidering gentle folk melodies and combining them with a little liltingly tranquil singing too, his power at a keyboard always throbs below the surface in rolling, ostinato patterns, chord-clamouring climaxes and whirling folk dances.
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On top of this was a sweet singing voice that caught the lilting melodies and highlighted the complicated passages of the music.
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She began the lyrical melody, her fingers flowing over the keys without thought, her body swaying to the lilting melody of the music.
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He heard a man's gruff voice and a loud slap, followed by familiar lilting laughter.
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They walk through the dancing couples; others dance, they walk, but they begin to walk in time, a lilting walk, almost a glide.
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But his talk is tough, if softened by a lilting Scottish accent.
Times, Sunday Times
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She used the Japanese word Danna-san, Sir Master, and although she had never yet allowed Kamejdro to master her at anything, she sang the word in a lilting, wifelike manner and dropped her eyes, and all the men there thought: "How lucky Kamejiro was to make that swap.
Hawaii
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The voice was not her normal incomprehensible croak but lucid and lilting and slightly posh, like the voice of the lady who read the six o'clock news on the BBC.
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The words work best as a means to an end, leaving the melodies and lilting harmonies for your foremost enjoyment.
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Pretty-looking films with prettier faces, lilting songs and noisy soundtracks shot on foreign locations are good "timepass" - as they say in India - for most audiences.
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But his talk is tough, if softened by a lilting Scottish accent.
Times, Sunday Times
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Serenity," a lilting, beautifully probing song, finds Hesione contemplating the hazards of romance, and while Hedman's not a great singer, her emotionally supple rendition gives this comedy the right measure of gravity.
Olney Theatre's 'Triumph of Love' has great comedy, performances and music
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It is heady, too, and strong: sheen, dah, tah, noon, reh, zein, sounds that brook no spill of liquid before their heat, threaten any lilting sibilance to vapour and smoke if it should come too near.
Eeeee! Art!
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She laughed, softly and with a kind of lilting warmth.
Salvage for the Saint
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The language used is simple yet lilting, and the meaning is profound.
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The most fertile Cuban musical form turned out to be the habanera, a lilting dance form that evolved out of the old French Contre-danse in the years following the Haitian revolution.
The Haitian-Born Rhythm Revolution
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Snippets of waltz occasionally float through, the Mozart connection abruptly contrasted by ostinatos, lilting chords, and variants of the Mozartian melody in Russian sounding woodwind lines.
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The song is Hollywood, but Hoku's voice, her face, and her smile are pure aloha, the music as lilting as Hawaiian slack-key guitar.
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The real star is director Ava Roy, whose masterful use of the entire island was both subtle and innovative; at times organic (the gravedigger scene was on a small mountain of rubble) and striking (Ophelia's madness was played inside a wide open hospital room threaded with white twine, empty birdcages, and lilting bird down.)
Lauren Gunderson: Wild and Whirling Words: An Audacious Hamlet on Alcatraz
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He is now master of his voice, having not only developed it into two distinct instruments - the lilting croon and the rich bark - but using each instrument in the proper settings.
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The effect is a lilting, mesmeric tidal flow of rhythm and melody - you might find yourself slipping into a trance, with or without the aid of controlled substances.
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The four girls, Kelly, Tara and sisters Ciara and Cathy, blend pure, lilting harmonies with timeless pop melodies.
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She gave her oath, accent lilting, reading from what looked like a giant plastic placemat on the dispatch box.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lilting croon of a young woman singing, the soft rumble of a man.
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It is heady, too, and strong: sheen, dah, tah, noon, reh, zein, sounds that brook no spill of liquid before their heat, threaten any lilting sibilance to vapour and smoke if it should come too near.
Eeeee! Art!
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The festival opened, for example, with the bright and lilting "Scherzo capriccioso," one of his best folksy programmatic pieces.
Chicago's Date With Dvorak
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Graceland, though echoes of its lilting South African kwela music are heard on
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He walked with a lilting gait, his left Achilles tendon apparently shortened, pulling his left heel up.
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A lilting, deeply accented voice spoke quietly, yet it cut right through the buzz of conversation around them.
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I try not to overuse the word "lilting" when describing a band's music; it's one of those adjectives that really has to be earned by a certain sweet, heartfelt buoyancy in the way a song is performed.
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It tastes sweet, light, lilting, rich - it tastes like I imagine one of those sunbeams breaking through clouds might taste, fleeting and rare.
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But lilting Irish brogues and ebullient ribaldry are not enough to temper O'Casey's disgusted misanthropy.
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The melody was at times slow and lilting, and other times fast-paced and merry.
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Her voice was mellifluous and lilting and her soft brown eyes had a hint of mischief in them.
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And the echo of her lilting croon came back, bouncingly, to reassure her that this installation was not large and was set in natural stone caverns.
The ship who sang
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an easy lilting stride
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A lilting tune comes on the boat's radio.
Times, Sunday Times
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A remake of the lilting Irving Berlin ditty Blue Skies began playing as the lights came up.
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Barth stood a while in the world of mirrored light, his angry breath calmed with the lilting and sighing of the slow wind.
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If anything, he sounds more like dad than his siblings with that familiar lilting drawl turning its attention to the political and the personal.
The Sun
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Best of the set though is the uncharacteristically breezily lilting third number.
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Electronic fuzz oscillates in the background, as Matters sways in and out of a lilting tune, lines like ‘We played hide and seek in waterfalls’ sharing the same melodic cadence as the album title.
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This track, with its lilting verses and gently lifting (sounds like a brassiere, but it isn't) accordion phrase, stays in my head, tranquilizing me.
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With no distractions other than a few lilting refrains from the skilled guitar of Andrew Pendlebury, the audience needs chemistry between the performers to hold their attention.
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When summoned by the host's whistle, he came to the door lilting a planxty merrily, -- but when he re-entered the stable, the melody ceased, and his countenance became serious.
International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850
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When I came home, I found myself drinking in the simplest things -- the blessing of a refreshing breeze, the velvet texture of newly cut grass, a small child's lilting laughter.
Interview with Susan Vreeland
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Its warmth circled the amply furnished common room it bordered, mixing with the early spring breeze lilting in through the open windows.
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Simple, lilting melodies that cut the conversation dead and had the hardest of men staring deep into the glowing embers.
Man of Honour
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Then we shift into the lilting melodies of two Russian lullabies, "Little Birch Tree" and "Good Night.
Brenda Peterson: Sing, Make a Joyful Sound: How Singing Helps Us
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the flute broke into a light lilting air
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Her solos are reminiscent of Wally Rose's lilting ragtime sides on the first Watters Jazzman records in 1941.
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This track, with its lilting verses and gently lifting (sounds like a brassiere, but it isn't) accordion phrase, stays in my head, tranquilizing me.
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Sassy seems to be largely benevolent as most reports feature his lilting, sing-song voice drifting through the swamp.
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Gentle brush strokes on a snare drum and soft, lilting vocals are all well and good, but pure pleasantness is apt to fall into the category of being dangerously languorous.
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She placed the slimy cud behind her, picking up another shock of lazy, lilting grasses — she selected two, let the remains scuttle greenily in the wind, placed a leafy scythe to my lips.
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Standard French is widely spoken, albeit in a distinctive, lilting French West Indian accent.
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He is undoubtedly a driving force behind the band, his lilting, liquid bass lines underpinning the more ethereal, fractured sound that surrounds them.
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Over the course of its previous five albums, the band - primarily the outlet for singer / composer / multi-instrumentalist Gustav Ejstes - has constructed swirling paisleys of reverberative, fuzz-drenched psychedelic rock and soft, lilting melodies of foresting folk.
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They played Tschaikowsky first, the tender and passionate "Melodie"; then a lilting measure from Debussy's "Faun," followed by a solemnly lovely Brahms arrangement devised by the virtuoso himself.
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We happen into a traditional jam session with the legendary Mary Bergin on tin whistle (the instrument some hold responsible for making the Titanic sound track the bestselling of all time), Johnny "Ringo" McDonagh on Bodhran drum (he was a solo in Riverdance for four years and one of the groundbreakers in the musical vocabulary of the instrument) and Steve Sweeney lilting, which is a kind of mouth music along the lines of a Gaelic Bobby McFerrin.
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Scott Joplin and W.C. Handy, among other composers of early jazz, worked with a new sort of syncopation that drew, somewhat, on the rhythm of the habanera, a Cuban dance music that became fashionable enough in 19th-century Europe that it provided the lilting bass line for the famous aria in Bizet 's Carmen.
When Cuba Invaded America
