Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
staccato .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It whistled once long and melodiously, then twice in short staccatos.
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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
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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.
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The yellow whales mourn staccatos to the rising sun.
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The yellow whales mourn staccatos to the rising sun.
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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.
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Light bounced from a million indefinable facets, diffuse, punctuated by a myriad of pinpoint staccatos.
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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.
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You can still articulate the slurs and staccatos and shape the phrases without losing the big picture, if you try.
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You can still articulate the slurs and staccatos and shape the phrases without losing the big picture, if you try.
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