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How to use cadences in a sentence

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Lincoln fell in love with metaphors and cadences, assonance and alliteration.
But read it aloud and you start to hear the music, the cadences of Scottish speech.
The Aeolian mode takes a G sharp at cadences, and has many characteristics in common with the modern minor scale.
The elegance, the sorrow, the cadences of the language there reminds one of Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 with its haunting refrains.
In those poems he captures so completely the familiar ritual cadences of Akan.
They shook rattles fashioned of skulls on long bones as they chanted the cadences of the spell.
The audience was often tricked by cadences that felt as though they should lead into the famous adagio.
There's something about the guitars and the cadences of the voice that evoke the mystery and sadness of the ocean.
They cluster in the short midday shadows of the coconut grove, where the steamy air softens even the icy cadences of their accents.
These cadences were indicated by conventional gestures of the hand and fingers.
Gone, too, are the Jody calls, cadences in which a back-home character named Jody was ruining a soldier's life.
The logical division of every sentence was clarified by musical cadences which interrupted the flow of words.
Similarly, in our writing, cadences are stress points, moments where syntax and substance team up to convey special meaning.
Even the most bookish work that seems esoteric on the written page can be transformed by actors into the cadences of characters and themes.
Students should examine the cadences and identify the key to which it modulates.
Whenever I read that text, his cadences, his eloquence and his zeal come readily to mind.
Its cadences follow the rhythms of machines, and pull the reader into its moments of repetition, into its pauses.
By emphasizing the bass line near strategic cadences, he transformed the usual showpiece into real music.
Despite his high rhetorical tone and biblical cadences, even Jack sounded bored and out of touch.
For her cadences, she went mainly to Protestant hymns, with their steady iambic lines of eight or ten syllables.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The voices of the flowers were lifted in gentle cadences to the rhythm of the feathered dancers' featly twists and turns.
The night sounds of the city hummed in eerie cadences in her ears.
Skidmore liberated trippingly rhythmic enunciations, and soothed cadences to cushion satisfying endings.
The soft summer wind stirs the redwoods, and Wild-Water ripples sweet cadences over its mossy stones.
The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations.
There was something half-plaintive in the modulated cadences of the query.
And they articulated some trivial cadences about love and such.
At last a nightingale, lost in a thicket of shrubs, in the midst of its most melodious cadences had fluted low and lower into stillness and fallen asleep.
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