How to Use syncopated in a Sentence

syncopated

adjective

• There are also traces of hip-hop, jazz and syncopated rhythms.
  — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 12 July 2017
• The best sax players work off patterns, beats and syncopated rhythms.
  — Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2026
• This upbeat and quirky musical style is known for its syncopated rhythm and speed.
  — Lawrence Elizabeth Knox, Houston Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2017
• Solving the crime requires our man to shuttle back in forth in time — syncopated time, of course.
  — Adam Woog, The Seattle Times, 1 July 2017
• But over the course of his time there, the music of the town changes to a more syncopated, looser ragtime.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 6 Apr. 2022
• Occasionally a few words in a voice-over pierce the syncopated rhythm of the drum.
  — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
• All the while, Reid counted along aloud, helping clap syncopated rhythms.
  — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 16 Sep. 2022
• Her music warps and scars the syncopated grooves, rap flows, and electronic jolts of modern pop.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2019
• Carey gets her bounce on with this syncopated, feel-good nod to female empowerment.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2020
• People danced and swayed to the syncopated jazz, the crowd pulsating and sweating.
  — Christine Fernando, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Aug. 2020
• Her songs were aggressive, jaggedly syncopated funk that was anything but shy.
  — New York Times, 10 Feb. 2022
• Then there's the trebly slice of the guitar, slashing away at the all-important syncopated off-beat.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 14 June 2017
• Disco, which had started in black clubs and migrated to gay clubs, had a strong syncopated beat that everybody could move to.
  — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• But at the end of the first short phrase, the clock can’t help having some fun, breaking up the boredom by throwing in a moment of syncopated rhythm.
  — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020
• That verse part used a syncopated guitar riff to create minor-sounding tension amid major chords.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 6 July 2022
• Cantering is where the rider squeezes with their lower legs and feet and then leans forward and clicks their tongue to get the get the horse to take three syncopated steps in each stride.
  — Madison Smalstig, The Indianapolis Star, 1 July 2022
• His hands, with their many rings, are broad and eloquent, delicately clasping and unclasping in syncopated claps.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2019
• That was handled by Alex Wright, who also invented a syncopated riff that became a theme throughout the song.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 14 June 2022
• Gordon acts with his entire body (his heavy, syncopated gait is a kind of dance) but, especially, with his hands, which are as eloquent as his (or anyone else’s) voice.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
• Instead, the focus is on monster grooves livened up with a barrage of syncopated percussion played on cowbells, congas, bongos, and more.
  — Jay Quan, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2022
• The Lally-Canty rhythm section offered a syncopated, lustily grooving backbone in contrast to the speed and thrash of punk up to that point.
  — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
• Lindy is characterized by some of the same things that make Jazz music great - syncopated rhythms, improvisation, and call and response.
  — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland.com, 5 July 2019
• The pentatonic melodies and syncopated rhythms found within are some of the African influences that made the symphony a novel hybrid for its time.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2022
• The fact that Ryan is a first-rate hoofer, and the chemistry between him and Platt fuels their syncopated routines together, helps immensely.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2021
• Samba is a Brazilian music and dance genre driven by syncopated rhythms that grew out of Afro-Brazilian traditions.
  — ABC News, 17 Feb. 2026
• Taking to the center of the field, Church appeared in a purple denim jacket playing his guitar to a slower, syncopated version of the anthem.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 7 Feb. 2021
• There's a strong New Orleans feel to several of the album's eight tracks, plenty of feel-good funk with syncopated rhythms, bright brass, greasy keyboard tones and raunchy guitar.
  — Lawrence Specker, AL.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• There's a lean-in intimacy to the production too, which seesaws between feathery new-jack shuffles and a kind of soulful syncopated simmer that wouldn't sound wrong on an old jukebox.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2022
• My rhythm and stuff comes more from listening to Parliament/Funkadelic and syncopated kind of rhythmic singing and Otis Redding is a very rhythmic singer.
  — Matt Wake, AL.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• After the doumbek — a Middle Eastern hand drum — taps a syncopated groove in the first movement, the piccolo spins out a traditional-sounding tune, while the harp strums lush harmonies.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2021