How to Use cadence in a Sentence

cadence

noun

• Oars moved back and forth in smooth cadence.
• He speaks with a soft Southern cadence.
• But at the end of March, the cadence moved to twice a week.
  — Kerry Flynn, CNN, 10 July 2020
• The bass lines changed, the pockets changed, the cadence, the writing.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 6 Nov. 2023
• The video speed seems to max out around 75 points of cadence.
  — Samantha Hissong, Rolling Stone, 30 Apr. 2021
• But her cadence slows as the weight of that day comes back.
  — Rebecca Nelson, Cosmopolitan, 25 Oct. 2017
• For decades, that cadence has been more or less the same.
  — Brian Costa, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2018
• The cadence in the huddle, say, or the body language on the sideline.
  — Shawn Windsor, USA TODAY, 31 July 2022
• Now feels like a good time to make a quick note about cadence.
  — Amy Marturana, SELF, 2 Apr. 2019
• Firefly aims to reach a cadence of one launch a month by the year 2024.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2022
• If the bird is singing, try to remember the length and cadence of its song.
  — Matt Goulet, Popular Mechanics, 1 Oct. 2020
• On the page, Adichie’s words retain the rousing cadence of a speech.
  — Nicole Lamy, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2017
• Byford lays out the case with the practiced cadence of a stump speech.
  — Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2022
• The players’ eyes are locked in as the coaches speak in rapid-fire cadences.
  — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2018
• The pulse of city life would be tempered with the serene cadence of the countryside.
  — Paul Jebara, Town & Country, 5 Sep. 2023
• The app tracks heart rate, speed, cadence, and distance data on the screen.
  — Diana Kelly Levey, Health, 20 Feb. 2023
• All the kick snares and everything changed — the bass lines changed, the pockets changed, the cadence, the writing.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2023
• Or when somebody prayed, just the cadences, their rhythms.
  — Margy Rochlin, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2024
• One of the best ways to find that cadence is to shuffle and let your shoulders and arms hang free.
  — Milo F. Bryant, Men's Health, 4 Aug. 2022
• And then there'll be a steady cadence of tests thereafter.
  — Fox News, 12 Oct. 2019
• Usually the cadence is kind of a little bit made up on the spot.
  — Chris Varias, Cincinnati.com, 11 Nov. 2019
• But there is something to the way Slalien’s cadence builds that effect.
  — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2020
• Watch the flow, watch your footwork here, take your steps, watch the cadence, listen to these things.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 27 May 2021
• Speeding the cadence of testing is one of these things.
  — Rob Gurzeev, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
• A lot of the flows and cadences that the whole industry uses now came from the blue M&M himself.
  — Daniel Kohn, Spin, 28 Aug. 2023
• Just like the right cadence, word choice, word economy, all of that.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 13 Mar. 2020
• But Starship still hasn’t flown this year, let alone at such a fast cadence.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2022
• This is a flight cadence of a little more than one mission a year.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2022
• Try to get on the bottom and retrieve with a slow, short cadence—use a tap, tap approach.
  — Andrew Pegman, Field & Stream, 27 Oct. 2020
• Maybe offensive line-wise with the cadence and stuff like that.
  — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 9 May 2024