MONOSYLLABLE in a Sentence

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10 example sentences for MONOSYLLABLE, such as:

1. In this case the monosyllable had a moral intention.
2. She found it difficult to obtain even a word from her beyond a monosyllable.
3. In short, no way is open to the thought by a philosophy which makes all end in the monosyllable, No.
4. Pierre remained gloomily silent, answering in monosyllables and apparently immersed in his own thoughts.
5. When they had passed the barrier, the coachman tried to enter into conversation, but the traveller only replied in monosyllables.

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 Meanings and Examples of MONOSYLLABLE
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monosyllable
 n.  a word or utterance of one syllable
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1  In her anxiety to keep her voice quite calm, Jo made it rather cool, and the frosty little monosyllable at the end seemed to chill the Professor, for his smile vanished, as he said gravely.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
2  She found it difficult to obtain even a word from her beyond a monosyllable.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 44
3  It is probably in his character to ask such a question at such a moment in such a tone and to pronounce the word SCIENCE as a monosyllable.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
4  In this case the monosyllable had a moral intention.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
5  In short, no way is open to the thought by a philosophy which makes all end in the monosyllable, No.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
6  But Katya answered him in monosyllables; she withdrew into herself, went back into her shell.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  The countess tried to make him talk, but he went on naively looking around through his spectacles as if in search of somebody and answered all her questions in monosyllables.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII
8  Pierre remained gloomily silent, answering in monosyllables and apparently immersed in his own thoughts.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XII
9  Now and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the conversation soon flagged.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
10  When they had passed the barrier, the coachman tried to enter into conversation, but the traveller only replied in monosyllables.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
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