What is "cadenced"

Usage examples of "cadenced".

From what seemed infinitely far away there was the cadenced sound of chanting by a chorus of deep male voices, the words blurred and confused by the echoes reverberating from the stone walls and seeming to die off, endlessly repeated.

With increasing impatience Kennon listened to the cadenced flow of complaint and condemnation, occasionally inserting a "Yes, sir" or "Sorry, sir" or "No, sir" as the words flowed around him.

At the last I felt myself only an atom of consciousness in a sea of cadenced whispering.

And moving among the trees were figures that threaded the boles and flitted in rhythmic measures like the shadows of leafy boughs swaying to some cadenced wind.

The sound was cadenced at first, coming from a lone drum at the same throbbing tempo as a human heartbeat.

He spoke haltingly, as if he were waiting for a cadenced answer from his twin.

And for a while silence fell between them there—silence broken only by their troubled breathing and the cadenced roaring of the huge gas-well flame outside the prison wall.

Cleveland could not become the fashion with the public as an author, though the coteries cried him up and the reviewers adored him--and the ladies of quality and the amateur dilettanti bought and bound his volumes of careful poetry and cadenced prose.

It was like a mustering shouting to adventurous stars, buglings to buccaneering winds, cadenced beckonings to restless ranks of viking waves, signaling to all the corsairs and picaroons of the elemental.

Nor did it break off, because as other voices began to weave, over that deep and continuing line, a series of vocalises and melismas, it—telluric—continued to dominate and did not cease for the whole time that it took a speaker to repeat twelve “Ave Maria”s in a slow and cadenced voice.