Musically disconnected

Usage examples of staccato.

The lanky slicer was peering through an access panel with his magnispecs flipped down, manipulating a micrograbber in each hand and muttering to himself in a high-pitched, staccato manner that sounded alarmingly like machine code.

As he listened to the staccato picking and arpeggiated runs of the song, Jury thought that anonymity was not that hard to come by.

The staccato concatenated barks of coyotes, the lonely mourn of bloodthirsty wolves, the roo-roo-rooooo of mating buffalo, the stamping, yelling war dance of the Indians--were hardly to be compared to this Australian bushland chant.

A staccato blast of gunfire instantly boomed and echoed through the cyanogen atmosphere within the tower, when his men followed his lead.

A possum yarred from the big eucalypt Jack had left standing behind to shade the cottage, and Rory answered its challenge with staccato yaps.

The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of waggons, and the staccato of hoofs.

Ommony grunted a monosyllable and the jungli turned loose floods of speech--little staccato freshets in his case that broke forth and were dry again.

Hall, feeling that her conversational advances were ill-timed, laid the rest of the table things in a quick staccato and whisked out of the room.

He made a quick, staccato report of the discovery and capture of Lifer Stone.

He misses their sharp staccato conversations, their sublingual grunts, their smell of oniony sweat.

He concentrated on being Juve, and Juve was checking out the scene, with long Yardbird Parker riffs, all staccato, in his head.

From the wall annunciators there poured out a staccato howl of static through which could be dimly heard an alien gobbling which was presumably the SRTT sound tape.

When the light staccato of a knock sounded on the outer door of her apartments she sprinted past a grinning Meryt to open it herself.

From time to time staccato notes of delight added a distinct jubilant quality to this symphony, heralding the arrival of some group of Church dignitaries from one or other of the seven principal parishes of Venice, gorgeous in robes of high festival and displaying the choicest of treasures from sacristies munificently endowed, as was meet for an ecclesiastical body to whom belonged one half of the area of Venice, with wealth proportionate.

The sackers barked their staccato duet again, and this time plumes of timber and debris rose above the town.