His voice rose abruptly in the course of that single syllable.
He had tried to engage the woman in conversation, but each time, she turned him away with a single syllable.
With all the wisdom of the world contained in the single syllable.
You may judge, what must have been my feelings during this conversation, of which I lost not a single syllable.
He spoke in two sharp little explosions of single syllables.
She nodded again, this time without speaking a single syllable.
Executive, or execution, a single syllable on which the soldiers actually move.
Little more than a single syllable could have been spoken on either side.
It was as if the single syllable had stuck in his mouth.
Maybe after a night out all he could think in were single words of single syllables.