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.