(Music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply.
1 His staccato , opening words were decidedly downbeat - Hip operation went wrong.
2 Behind him I could hear the sudden staccato of automatic weapons fire.
3 Most important. His words were getting quieter, his sentences more abbreviated, staccato .
4 Kirsteen interrupted in her calm, staccato voice with just the faintest lisp:
5 Through the last staccato sentences there ran an unstated sense of desperation.
6 It moved silently, without the usual sharp staccato rattle of the exhaust.
7 Gallagher begins to count them off, and is answered in staccato fashion.
8 The nervous staccato chatter of Herod is certainly characteristic of this neurasthenic.
9 Whatever you want to call it, Gage explained impatiently, in staccato outbursts.
10 The sharp staccato sound of a horse cantering came up behind him.
11 From downstairs in the galley they heard a sudden staccato of laughter.
12 While she watched, a staccato of answering fire darted from the lines.
13 When he scrambled to his feet, the staccato bursts of fire stopped.
14 She knew that sound - the staccato percussion of a burst tyre-onlytoo well.
15 Against the silence these taps, but gently delivered, sounded sharp and staccato .
16 He was talking to himself now, in a staccato chatter of Farsi.
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Staccato в диалектах
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