It's the literation, this monosyllabic tread in this stanza almost lulls us to sleep like the dreary marching of the sleepless men that we hardly notice.
When one of Johnson's speeches was criticised by Arnold Schwarzenegger, he said, it was a low moment to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.
I made some attempts to draw her into conversation, but she seemed a person of few words: a monosyllabic reply usually cut short every effort of that sort.
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The most popular work of U.S. author Wharton, 1862-1937, Ethan Frome is narrated by a visitor to a New England town who is intrigued by one of its residents, Ethan Frome, a dour and monosyllabic farmer.