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How to use polysyllabic in a sentence

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I present a new breed of cultural critic, unleashing a fresh brand of polysyllabic pontification.
Some children, however, have problems with polysyllabic words, and so they need explicit teaching, coupled with broad-based reading experiences.
What we really need is a small, elegant phone that makes typing real, polysyllabic words fast and easy.
Moreover, as noted in section 5.2.1, there is a marked tendency for polysyllabic words to commence with a stressed syllable.
A word containing many syllables is a polysyllable or polysyllabic word, such as selectivity and utilitarianism.
With 26 letters to choose from, why do we keep fixing upon the only letter in the English alphabet with a polysyllabic name?
No more biblish, no more tiresome polysyllabic nonsense, no more mundane middle-class mutterings.
They cling to polysyllabic professors who find clever ways to say the same dumb things over and over again.
Surely this precocious, polysyllabic facility is an invaluable boon to cognitive development.
Here, alas, an ink-stained wretch fell behind in his polysyllabic note-taking.
Farwell also exhibits a Gibson-esque fascination with polysyllabic techno-gobbledygook.
Both monosyllabic and polysyllabic words representing closed, silent-e, and vowel digraph or diphthong syllable patterns are presented.
He is witty, he puns, and sometimes he employs the polysyllabic circumlocution of the nineteenth-century humorists.
All of the verbs in this excerpt are polysyllabic, strategically alliterative, and speak to various kinds of action that jolt the reader.
Whereas in New England, with Massachusetts Avenue and Commonwealth Avenues and plenty of Connecticut Avenues in other places, the polysyllabic names cry out for shortening.
Welles was at the time in the grip of the semioticians: everything was polyvalent, polysemous, above all polysyllabic.
I was on a great polysyllabic spree, a grand tour round the glories of the subordinate clause.
Firstly, it is forbidden to employ monosyllabic words when a polysyllabic alternative is available.
However, most words in Chinese are polysyllabic, consisting of two, three or even four syllables.
For the read speech style, percentages are quite close between regions, when considering polysyllabic or at least trisyllabic words.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Hence the polysyllabic, and the descriptive character of the language, so composite in its aspect and in its forms.
Swinburne's polysyllabic rage showed the force of the current he was trying to stem.
The commonest variation of the type occurs in the first thesis, which may be polysyllabic.
Owing to these licences, and to the introduction of polysyllabic theses, the rhythm of the verse sometimes becomes very heavy.
He departed from my view, a perplexing and polysyllabic problem, claiming for himself a useless and preposterous purity.
Our longtime favorite spot, Honaunau Bay, was farther south, past sleepy, polysyllabic towns chockablock with junk stores and local dives.
I have jotted down the very words of their argument, but now it degenerates into a mere noisy wrangle with much polysyllabic scientific jargon upon each side.
It was the first place I encountered Artforum, The Guardian, polysyllabic words, Talking Heads, vintage shops, and pasta sauce that wasn't Bolognese.
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