staccatos

It whistled once long and melodiously, then twice in short staccatos.

Frank of Freedom Hill 1901

Everything was expertly manicured, but accents were wan and Hahn's staccatos were sticky rather than spiky.

Virtuoso violinist Hilary Hahn holds her audience rapt but adds some irritants 2011

He leans over, yawns, and funk vibrates from his armpits, adagios from his mouth, staccatos from his feet in yellow-orange waves of tone and melody.

Chinchillas in the Air Rae Bryant 2010

The yellow whales mourn staccatos to the rising sun.

A Night at the Plywood Palace 2009

The yellow whales mourn staccatos to the rising sun.

A Night at the Plywood Palace 2009

Others believed that salt water coursed through his veins, courtesy of a romantic liaison between an unnamed great-great-grandmother and a merman, and thus was able to seek the advice of fish and wandering turtles and helpful dolphins, finding in the cacophony of responding splashing gurgles, bubbling staccatos, high-pitched whines, half-drowned falsettos, gill-flapping exclamations, and rhythmic piscine, reptilian and mammalian voices the necessary ways and means to cross the vast South China Sea.

vignette: boatman Dean Francis Alfar 2005

Light bounced from a million indefinable facets, diffuse, punctuated by a myriad of pinpoint staccatos.

The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

Anyway as drummers we spent a lot of time talking and goofing off while the band practiced, tone, pitch, staccatos, and other non-drummer things.

Archive 2006-05-01 kludge 2006

You can still articulate the slurs and staccatos and shape the phrases without losing the big picture, if you try.

Beethoven blues Jessica 2005

You can still articulate the slurs and staccatos and shape the phrases without losing the big picture, if you try.

Archive 2005-01-01 Jessica 2005