Meanings of staccato bursts in английском

When he scrambled to his feet, the staccato bursts of fire stopped.

That's what this match was in essence, little staccato bursts of continuity.

More firecrackers went off in long, staccato bursts.

Pages print in annoying, if effective, staccato bursts.

They were on the open net now and it was just a series of staccato bursts of words.

Indeed, I am rather averse to the modern trend to write only in staccato bursts of clauseless prose.

The questions were staccato bursts.

There was a telephone at work in the Vice-Consulate now a voice speaking in staccato bursts, pausing between each for the answer.

Pacing the room, he outlined a plan in staccato bursts, and Fitzhugh realized he was making it up as he went along.

His speculative observations are measured, carefully reasoned and delivered in staccato bursts -as are the chapters of this most unusual novel.

He beat on the door, hands popping off the surface in staccato bursts, then leapt awkwardly onto the scooter and vanished backward.

The members of the City Club literally stood and cheered, their applause cutting through the ringing in Margrit's ears in quick staccato bursts.

From an open doorway into another room at the left there issued the sound of static and the short, staccato bursts of police-band voices.

She turned on the shower, and the water came out in staccato bursts, rusty brown until she'd let it run for a few minutes.

At the same time he heard the staccato bursts of maneuvering jets, felt something land and plant its feet on either side of his waist.

A fast talker who explains his paintings in fragmentary, staccato bursts of speech, he shoots you interrogatory glances to make sure you're getting the point.