How to Use prosody in a Sentence

prosody

noun
  • But the number that are fit for verse, in terms of both meaning and prosody, is much smaller.
    The Economist, 30 May 2020
  • Among my friends, at least my guy friends, a return to traditional prosody.
    Ben Lerner, The New York Review of Books, 23 July 2020
  • With audio, the voice actor provides that information for you, so your brain is simply working to understand the prosody in your ears.
    Dan Seitz, Popular Science, 26 Jan. 2021
  • No prosody can immunize poetry against the test of experience.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • Our goal, then, is to modify the parts of audio that correspond to a speaker's personal style or timbre while preserving the parts of the audio that correspond to the spoken content such as prosody and words.
    Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2022
  • What happens next is trickier to nail down: Higher cortical regions are thought to tease out features specifically relevant to speech — from phonemes to prosody — in a hierarchical sequence.
    Quanta Magazine, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Indeed, Allen Ginsberg, no less, saw a connection between the Skeltonic tradition and rap prosody almost upon rap’s earliest crossover appearances, around 1980.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • Verbal markers such as intonation, prosody, and emphasis are what allow Irony Man to imbue sarcasm into conversation.
    Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2019
  • Another digs in further to how a person presents information, but instead of zeroing in on eye movement or fidgeting, the focus is on elements of speech including linguistics, and specifically prosody — the sound, rhythm or intonation of speech.
    Sophie Putka, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2021

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