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Meanings of lilting in English
Synonyms
Examples for "swinging"
Examples for "swinging"
1
About ten minutes to twelve I heard a car come swinging in.
2
Here is a plot of the average swinging speed for different cases.
3
Gordon added 17 points, including two momentum-swinging dunks in the second half.
4
The laws of physics state the pendulum must now start swinging back.
5
However I didn't see it swinging back yet and that worries me.
1
Five seconds later, the Ducks' Shea Theodore received a penalty for tripping.
2
People are still tripping their way through the Invisible London multimedia exhibition.
3
It feels like Smokefree Stage Challenge, grown up and absolutely tripping balls.
4
Some day-tripping yahoos visited Loggerhead Island this morning and stirred up trouble.
5
The same idea is daintily expressed in these tripping verses of Bryant's:-
1
We used to cut it in that swingy bob just below chin level.
2
The paint on the swingy gold balls she wore at her ears was chipped and peeling.
3
A band of pipers marches out in kilts, with bagpipes and drums and the swingy march of pipers.
4
Son Jung Wan, a designer from South Korea, showed gold metallic swingy skirts, gold jacket lapels and gold-tipped shoes.
5
Her hair- anatural-lookingblond-streakedbrown-hunga few inches past her shoulders, and it was loose and swingy as she played.
Usage of lilting in English
1
I speak beautiful English with an accent lilting elegantly across English shires.
2
He even makes his good old short-worded Saxon go in lilting waltz-time.
3
Meanwhile, the voice in her ear took on a strange, lilting quality.
4
What a joy to listen to her lilting pronunciation of every word.
5
About his soft and lilting voice and the fierce way he kissed.
6
An immemorial woe sounds even through the lilting notes of Italian gaiety.
7
Was that a hint of humor she heard in his lilting brogue?
8
Mon, you mean the prison? he said in a lilting Caribbean accent.
9
By and by Mr. Jackal came lilting along with his tail up.
10
What troubles you? Her voice was soft, lilting as a crystal stream.
11
Dimly, through the buzzing in his ears, Skylan heard lilting, girlish laughter.
12
And he started to play a lilting little tune on his pipe.
13
In her soft, lilting voice, she tore through conversations like a projectile.
14
A final note: Eastwood's lilting musical score is among his best.
15
Ashe reached for the flap of the fabric and a lilting voice called:
16
Her voice was lilting, but there was a harsh edge under the words.
About this term
Frequent collocations
Lilting through the time
Lilting across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common