lilting in English

verb
1
speak, sing, or sound with a lilt.
a lilting Welsh accent

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "lilting" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "lilting", or refer to the context using the word "lilting" in the English Dictionary.

1. She spoke in her soft lilting brogue.

2. We struck up in a lilting voice.

3. He had a pleasant, lilting northern accent.

4. The flute broke into a light lilting air.

5. And sings her lilting lulabies in the arms of the winds.

6. Talk and song from tongues of lilting grace , whose sounds caress my ear.

7. 28 Talk and song from tongues of lilting grace , whose sounds caress my ear.

8. A tuneless, wordless lilting song that rose and fell and meandered like a stream.

9. 4 A tuneless, wordless lilting song that rose and fell and meandered like a stream.

10. He heard a man's gruff voice and a loud slap, followed by familiar lilting laughter.

11. He walked with a lilting gait, his left Achilles tendon apparently shortened, pulling his left heel up.

12. But little did She know that the girl's lilting voice had caught the attention of a handsome prince.

13. The 1913 Lullaby on an ancient Irish Tune is altogether edgier, with a sinuous winding melody and lilting polytonal exchanges.

14. But what may have been problematic to the feet was pure pleasure to the ear, more languid song than lilting dance.

15. Songster, Composer, & Sound Mangler Warbling sea harbored melodies - rhythmic tintinnabulary Cabalettas inside soft baked fairy tale threnodies - lilting moontouched theramins and/or psychic lithogra

16. Brogue noun (WAY OF SPEAKING) [ C usually singular ] a way of speaking English, especially that of Irish or Scottish speakers: She spoke in her soft, lilting Brogue.

17. She then turned her attention to seeking out objects of amusement for herself, and tripped merrily on, lilting a tune to supply the lack of conversation.

18. How long this lather of lightsome angels and lilting gales lasts, he knows not, but at last, he finds himself Accolled in the arms of a most familiar ally

19. Beaune is a special sort of place where colourful shopfronts at the end of a narrowing street beckon you along, and the lilting sound of an accordion calls to you from around the corner

20. I think my tears have become good "'Tumbling Towards A wall’ is a keening batch of dematerialised atmospheres and lilting rhythms bound to lull listeners into hypnagogic states with its anxiety-sink ambient

21. ‘A gentle and lyrical Andantino in triple time with a lilting rhythm and an emotional central section ended intimately, in stillness.’ More example sentences ‘Perlman fairly sailed through these Andantinos and caprices, using each one to showcase yet another aspect of his extraordinary mastery of the instrument.’

22. ‘Her voice was Accented, but she spoke the common tongue well enough.’ ‘He began to speak in a deeply Accented, yet flawless English, and the last bits of conversation died from the room.’ ‘A lilting, deeply Accented voice spoke quietly, yet it cut right through the buzz of conversation around them.’

23. An attractively plump woman reclined Beside a stream picking flowers to the strain of a lilting love song.: The world number eight dropped a stroke at the par-four ninth when his drive ended Beside a tree down the left side of the fairway.: On a little table stood a half full bottle of mineral water with a glass next to it, and Beside it lay a single red and white sock.