Staccato in a sentence

A staccato passage for strings is by definition a bowed rather than a pizzicato technique, though pizzicato itself might be thought of as a kind of staccato effect.

Monday, a moment when the Lakers’ first-round series could swing in one direction or the other, had to be played mostly in staccato.

The Apache enters a field where Staccato’s C2 and XC 2011s, Atlas’s Athena, and Springfield Armory’s Prodigy are fighting it out for a place at the top.

When reading the short story before pressing play, I also found myself rushing through it with a similar staccato beat, each line brief and to the point to tell us everything we need to know without wasting time with superfluous detail.

Again, the staccato nature of their play has been the problem.

He could also make out the short, staccato sounds of ammunition stored in people’s homes as it went off.

After moody down-tempo verses, doubled guitars ignite into staccato trills, layering and building in intensity toward a cathartic release.

He swooped in from astern and came within 600 yards of one bomber before opening up with a staccato of fire that ripped away the cowling from one of the target’s engines.

He took its staccato notes and stretched them by modifying the instrument.

Many have the familiar curving shape that flares out into a lip, but when played they tend to make a dry, staccato sound.

Never released as a single in the US, it unsurprisingly wasn’t a hit, but that’s no reflection on its thrilling, wildly idiosyncratic staccato funk.

Sometimes I try to watch out for them, and sometimes I don't," said taxi driver Jose-Carlos Mendoza, 59, from behind the wheel of his Chevy as he weaved through the traffic in a brutal staccato of stops and starts.

The move toward surface homogenization was not without foundation: Tournament directors concluded that their paying public preferred extended rallies to a men’s game dominated by big servers and staccato exchanges.

Winds piped in with staccato, insistently rhythmic patter as a trio of vocalists — sopranos Holly Sedillos and Zanaida Robles and mezzo-soprano Kristen Toedtman — burst through with sheets of ethereal keening.

The rich performances are fractured across time by the story’s staccato rhythm, an integral interplay for the story’s examination of experience as an accumulation of interactions.

A few composers, such as Mozart, have used staccato dots accompanied by a written instruction staccatissimo when they mean the passage to be played staccatissimo.

Another difference between New Zealand and Australian English is the length of the vowel in words such as "dog", and "job" which are longer than in Australian English which shares the short and staccato pronunciation shared with British English.

A number of signs came to be used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to discriminate more subtle nuances of staccato.

Fiddlers tend to play fast and make heavy use of staccato bowing and may from time to time "play the bass," meaning a second fiddler may play a melody an octave below where a first fiddler is playing it.

For example, staccato is often referred to as "separated" or "detached" rather than having a defined or numbered amount by which to reduce the notated duration.