How to Use lilting in a Sentence

lilting

adjective

• The gal in the lilting dress and the crazy shoes prevails, and books a room.
  — Karen Stabiner, New York Times, 14 June 2018
• Should the first name be a short, to-the-point name, or should the moniker be long and lilting?
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 25 May 2022
• The edge in her lilting voice had a warning: Don’t screw this up.
  — Kimberly Bridson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• Nikolov is bald with a kindly face and a lilting voice.
  — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
• The lilting Latin songs keep her in touch with Puerto Rico, the home of her birth.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Dec. 2021
• In a lilting Irish piece, the students played the same melody over and over, faster and faster, with flying fingers and bows.
  — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 17 Feb. 2020
• Fontana, of course, adds color — bands of painted red and white play backdrop to a lilting seam of black tar.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• Their voices were a tangle of languages: Paramount and Kasan and Treckish and even the lilting Rhashiran tongue.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 1 Dec. 2020
• For a little bit of folk salvation, turn to Bon Iver, whose evocative strums and lilting voice speak straight to the soul.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 30 May 2018
• A dance-able fusion of folk and pop, marked by glittering synths, hip-hop beats and Meath's lilting vocals.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2017
• Her lilting voice was as recognizable as her doe eyes and lithe frame.
  — Elaine Aradillas, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2023
• Mitalipov, who was born in Kazakhstan, is a small, dark-haired man with a lilting accent.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023
• The singing line and lilting slurs in the Andante could not have been sweeter, and the Finale boasted the ideal blend of resolve and playfulness.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 11 May 2018
• The duo’s lilting voices come together over the soft, snapping beat and twinkling synths.
  — Tamar Herman, Billboard, 20 Dec. 2017
• Yee speaks in a lilting manner, letting her thoughts spill forth freely, stream-of-consciousness style.
  — Monica Kim, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2018
• During lunch you will be entertained by the lilting sounds of a local Oud master.
  — Jim Berkeley, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
• In his fifties now, Alberto is soft-spoken and lanky, with messy shoulder-length hair and a lilting accent.
  — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
• De Angeli’s light use of olden-day language is lilting and skillful, giving color and depth to the tale.
  — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 20 June 2021
• Parant, a dignified man with urbane manners and a lilting Spanish accent, would have been the next captain of the San Juan.
  — Lance Wills, miamiherald, 11 Dec. 2017
• But not even the return of Kristen Bell's lilting narration as Gossip Girl can save the bad dialogue she's forced to spew.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 8 July 2021
• Her voice was high and lilting and full of feeling, like a little reed pipe someone might play in a forest to make cartoon animals start to dance.
  — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• The album had a lilting, soothing quality that was a stark contrast to the frenetic politics of the era.
  — Edward Kiersh, SPIN, 11 Feb. 2023
• Known for his dry, friendly style of comedy and his lilting voice, Funches has been involved in stand-up for nearly 15 years.
  — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 10 July 2018
• Mering travels and croons throughout the six-minute clip, intoning the song’s lilting melodies as a lamp-like cardiac organ shines out from her chest.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
• The track’s lilting melody leads the camera to a final shot of the piano playing without him — mirroring his notes as well as the intense feeling that comes with them.
  — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
• He was known for his lilting brogue and regaling parishioners with stories about his homeland.
  — al.com, 1 July 2019
• And the restaurant’s soundtrack — a lilting reggae — stunned me into a slurping silence.
  — Bryan Washington, New York Times, 5 July 2023
• With a snapping beat and lilting synths, the uplifting future bass track is an expressive high point of Tear, and was inspired by stories fans have told the group.
  — Tamar Herman, Billboard, 18 May 2018
• When watching a girl complaining about her Olive Garden job in a lilting, electronic pitch, my mind—to my own shock—went to the Jewish rites of sing-speaking the Torah.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020
• The lilting story song, about father and daughter, was written soon after Combs' wife, Nicole, became pregnant with their first child.
  — Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 3 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024