noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Michelle spoke with a soothing Southern lilt .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At extremely fast tempos this lilt is lost and they even out as they would in a funk or fusion context.
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Even if you have a tape recorder, the tone and the lilt of the voice can change what a phrase means.
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Even this gesture, a mercenary movement, had about it the lilt of broken syllables.
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For one thing it is devoid of the relentless lilt and terminological tedium of the professional programme writer.
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Her voice had a lilt to it as if she were on the verge of laughter.
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His voice has a racy fluency blended with the intuitive lilt of generations.
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In Minnesota and states of the northern Midwest a Scandinavian lilt is apparent in the local accent.
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Joe was the stylist, throwing in literary references and lingering over their prose until it had a lilt .