(1) He tried multiple times to draw me into a conversation but I only responded with monosyllabic answers.

(2) He answered her questions with monosyllabic responses.

(3) A movie theatre concession girl, Debbie, meets the store clerk at a laundromat and tries to make awkward, one-sided, monosyllabic conversation.

(4) He's dead certain and often nearly monosyllabic .

(5) Why are there so many syllables in the word monosyllabic ?

(6) The opening couplet divides ten monosyllabic words evenly between two lines.

(7) The first two lines, containing only monosyllabic words, mix a sing-song dimeter with a grim subject matter.

(8) He is permanently monosyllabic unless the subject happens to be narrow-gauge North American railways, and he never uses a word where a silent, dismissive glare would do.

(9) Having inspected the larder, Mary decided to prepare a steak pudding and when Bertha's monosyllabic husband, Davy, took a second helping her fate was sealed.

(10) Like other languages of the Sino-Tibetan group, Burmese is monosyllabic .

(11) He's very monosyllabic , and could put to sleep an over stimulated mule.

(12) Chinese is a monosyllabic language, where a single sound represents one word.

(13) This is a book of footballers when they were stars and not the monosyllabic , monotone u2018celebritiesu2019 that exist today

(14) Chinese is monosyllabic , Japanese is polysyllabic; Japanese verbs, adjectives and adverbs inflect, whereas they don't in Chinese.

(15) In Mexico City, where kidnapping occurs more frequently than in Iraq, security for the rich is essential and so the monosyllabic Creasy is hired as a bodyguard for eight-year-old Pita (Fanning).

(16) We listed a few words that we claimed were just exceptions to the claim that monosyllabic adjectives inflect, and we included wrong on that list.

(17) I think I'll stick to monosyllabic and disyllabic words today.

(18) The end result can sometimes resemble a conversation between two monosyllabic adolescents.

(19) I am a monosyllabic girl every time I'm near him.

(20) U2018You're usually not so monosyllabic ,u2019 she told me earnestly as we walked.

(21) I would have sensed if there had been any anxiety, but it was only the night before the race that he began to be monosyllabic .

(22) Jo answered, spitting out each monosyllabic word.

(23) He's also under the impression that the word u2018disu2019 evolved because u2018we are increasingly monosyllabic .u2019

(24) As they continue to develop, children learn to segment polysyllabic words into syllables as they approach kindergarten age and monosyllabic words into phonemes around first grade.

(25) Well, that's great, I told myself, I managed to squeeze about seven monosyllabic words into that lovely conversation.

(26) It used to be that whenever I called such places, I would be greeted by people who sounded like monosyllabic , grumpy teenagers.

(27) Most who spoke (and many offered only monosyllabic answers), claimed they intended to change their ways or had learned their lesson.

(28) So I eventually called up the helpline, and the monosyllabic customer advisor at the end of the phone informed me that there was indeed a delay.

(29) U2018So he's what's made you so monosyllabic ,u2019 she commented.

(30) This involves the names of social groups that are derived from monosyllabic adjectives, like black and gay.