| It didn't help that Jeff was so preoccupied that he answered in monosyllables, but Denise didn't think of that. |
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| I don't remember saying a thing, only monosyllables, till Mrs. Lawrence gave me an air kiss and walked away. |
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| Ella and Joe do not remark on this departure from his usual laconic monosyllables. |
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| His younger cousin, who has come up with a fine little language of his own consisting entirely of monosyllables, showed the same tendency. |
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| In general, the contrast of monosyllables and polysyllables creates a strong balance. |
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| The play has a distinctively harsh and gritty vocabulary and poetic tone throughout, thriving on rough monosyllables. |
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| In subtler metrical styles, this correlation is relaxed, so that weak monosyllables often appear in strong positions in the meter. |
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| Most sleepwalkers respond to verbal stimuli with only grunts or monosyllables, or make no response at all. |
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| John Wayne, she points out, spoke in monosyllables, often to denounce communication and chatter. |
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| Jeff responds in monosyllables and Travis, my best guy friend, gets incredibly distracted by what is going on in the room around him. |
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| He would sit across from his 14-year-old son, Matt, while they pushed takeaway food around the plate and spoke in monosyllables. |
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| She tries to strike up a conversation with him, and he responds in monosyllables, clearly not wanting to talk. |
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| Bewildered, the composer answered in monosyllables, until a frustrated Churchill gave up and turned to the guest on his left. |
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| He tried his best to strike up a conversation with her but she was unresponsive and spoke in monosyllables. |
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| They are common in monosyllables and incorporate a glide before a vowel at a syllable boundary. |
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| The son sells watches on the street for a living, speaking only in monosyllables to his customers. |
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| He tried to get me talking again while I waiting for the Captain, but I just couldn't find the heart to do more than answer in monosyllables. |
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| When she tried to initiate conversations her friend replied in monosyllables and she soon gave up. |
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| Alana didn't seem to have such problems, wandering over every few minutes to Romeo who either ignored her or answered her in monosyllables. |
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| He tried to talk with her, but she simply stared straight ahead and answered him in monosyllables. |
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| Maxine was keeping up a cheerful banter all the way to my rooms, but by then I was too tired to reply in more than monosyllables between the yawns. |
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| I remember, in the face of my cocky, faux-blasé manner, her shyness, reducing her to deep-toned monosyllables. |
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| For instance: He is surly and defensive, a reporter-averse utterer of combative monosyllables. |
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| By 8 he was becoming clumsy, talking in monosyllables and having trouble reading. |
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| It sends adrenaline zooming through my veins, fills me with vim, zest, zip and other monosyllables containing letters that score high in Scrabble. |
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| But he was not in a talkative mood and chomped his way grumpily through the meal, responding with grunts and monosyllables to all attempts to engage him in conversation. |
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| Their choice of words is correspondingly simple, lacking the tension between polysyllables and monosyllables observed in the stanzas from the poem. |
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| If someone is asking you about yourself, answer in monosyllables. |
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| As the others have their scenes read out I find myself crossing out whole chunks of dialogue from mine, reducing speeches to monosyllables and nods. |
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| In most of Norway and Sweden and in scattered Danish dialects, there is a special word tone, by which old monosyllables have one kind of pitch while old polysyllables have another. |
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| This is because, metrically speaking, disyllables are heavier than monosyllables, and should attract stress. |
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| The stoic heroes of Hemingway, given to drink, fights, boats, and monosyllables, became influential only when they were transferred to the screen. |
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| Most of the words are monosyllables, though some are polysyllabic. |
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| The characters, first devised to represent Chinese monosyllables, could be used only with great ingenuity to represent the agglutinative forms of the Japanese language. |
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| The Italian struck up a flirtatious conversation with me, as Italians will when there's nobody around who's either better looking or offering to sell them a new Gucci man-bag and I replied in polite monosyllables. |
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| He began to answer in dry and deliberately unhelpful monosyllables, denied the chance to talk about his own creation for the sake of a shanghaied un-debate on originality. |
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| The system documents 407 monosyllables and polysyllables. |
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| Six voices at once are in all fairness more than you could bid me reply to, were it not for the unanimity expressed by your univocity all shouting the same two monosyllables. |
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| The examples in are intended to illustrate that long and short primary vowels contrast in KT in word-final position, both in disyllables and in monosyllables. |
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| The words in Figure 3 contain no contrived examples, no questionable neologisms, no regionalisms and no disyllables trying to pass themselves off as monosyllables. |
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| Moreover, each 7-syllable line ends with a disyllable with emphasis on the penultimate syllable while the 5-syllable lines conclude with accented monosyllables. |
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| In every lexical word, and in some grammatical words, one syllable is identified as having primary stress, though in monosyllables the stress is not generally marked. |
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