syncopated

[ UK /sˈɪnkəpˌe‍ɪtɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈsɪŋkəˌpeɪtɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. stressing a normally weak beat
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How To Use syncopated In A Sentence

  • From another direction, it's the rat-a-tat of a video game, syncopated with the clickity-click of the buttons of the controller in the hands of teenage boys.
  •   I'm fine with left-handed flam paradiddle-diddles because I'm right-handed, but Mrs. Karash expects me to alternate left and right, and to accelerando, until I'm playing flam paradiddle-diddles fast like syncopated rolls. Moe Tucker
  • The whiteface, the Keystone Kops moments, the jerky movements, the syncopated line deliveries and Joe Bauer's loud sound effects—coins pouring into a cash register, Tiger Brown's heavy footsteps, the glugs as Mrs. Peachum Traute Hoess swallows her booze—contribute to the old-movie artificiality of the production. Waging Underclass Warfare
  • Like most blogs, the content is erratic, syncopated by the intrusions of daily life, random interests, monomania, narcissism and booze.
  • You'll find no contemporary rhythms here - no breakbeats, syncopated garage or 4/4 tech-house - to jolt you into the clever, chaotic and horrid present.
  • McDowell's guitar playing on these songs was all about rhythm, a distinctive syncopated chug that emphasized the offbeats and often stayed on a single chord.
  • Her zapateados were of truly elemental power and she brought them to breathtaking culminations in syncopated finales.
  • So you'll often see them in the mornings, standing, staring into space, with their little tootsies beating some silent syncopated rhythm on the grass.
  •   I'm fine with left-handed flam paradiddle-diddles because I'm right-handed, but Mrs. Karash expects me to alternate left and right, and to accelerando, until I'm playing flam paradiddle-diddles fast like syncopated rolls. Moe Tucker
  • But it was Gillespie who formed the early bands, organized the tours and schooled young acolytes in the odd, syncopated rhythms and lightning-fast runs that were trademarks of the new style.
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