: to sing or speak rhythmically and with fluctuating pitch
2
: to move in a lively springy manner
Example Sentences
Noun There was a charming lilt to her voice. a tune with a lilt
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
All that was missing was one of those Boston-style scally caps and a fake Irish lilt. Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2022 Over the phone, with birds cawing in the background, her voice has an energized lilt. Hunter Harris, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022 This Mediterranean restaurant with a Lebanese lilt brims with surprises. Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 25 July 2022 No chuckling, no mellifluous lilt, no warm commentary, just terse syllables that dropped like pellets from her tongue: a hundred and seventy-three thousand dollars. Eleni Schirmer, The New Yorker, 27 July 2022 And the Boston Ballet Orchestra, under music director Mischa Santora, gave an easy lilt to the proceedings, particularly the first-act waltz and polonaise. Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2022 None of the above is ever an issue at Zenola in Vienna, Va., a Mediterranean restaurant with a Lebanese lilt opened a year before the pandemic by chef Samer Zeitoun. Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 8 July 2022 In this early aught rendition of the classic, first recorded by Steve Conway in 1950, Michael Bublé's heavenly lilt is the most pleasant way to revel in your father's love. Mia Uzzell, Glamour, 19 June 2022 An exile from Fidel Castro’s Cuba, Azaceta has long translated human events into pictures whose themes are universal but whose style has a Caribbean lilt. Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
Verb
Elegant and complex with a unique Cabernet Franc lilt that provide the mysterious Angel in the Bottle of Croix de Labrie. Tom Mullen, Forbes, 22 May 2022 And so many of his ideas are inspired, like adding the forlorn country lilt of an accordionist (Veli Kujala) to the scene in which Hamlet corrals a traveling troupe of actors to put on an evocation of his father’s murder.New York Times, 15 May 2022 With her band members backing her up, Ballerini shows her voice to be well-suited for the song, never exactly imitating the rock icon’s inflections but instead adding a bit of her own East Tennessee lilt to the mix. Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2021 The strings lilt and wail until Zauner begins shredding, like the notes can’t come out of her fast enough. Justin Curto, Vulture, 4 June 2021 Jones speaks in a deep baritone, her Robeson County lilt adding bounce and verve to the words. Isabel Spiegel, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2020 Friedman has matched that sensibility here with songs that slide from lilting, gaslight-era melodiousness into a jagged, more contemporary anxiety. Ben Brantley, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020 The witty script glitters with the couple’s duelling voice-over accounts of the way things happened; the effervescent score, by André Previn, seems to set their voices to lilting music as if in a virtual operetta.The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2020 Kitty’s voice is also much deeper and more powerful compared to Watson’s lilting, airy singing heard on the Beauty and the Beast soundtrack. Ariana Brockington, refinery29.com, 5 Mar. 2020 See More