How to Use cadence in a Sentence

cadence

noun
  • Oars moved back and forth in smooth cadence.
  • He speaks with a soft Southern cadence.
  • The cadence should change with the state of your hair.
    — Jailynn Taylor, Allure, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Even more telling is the cadence of same-store sales.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Now feels like a good time to make a quick note about cadence.
    — Amy Marturana, SELF, 2 Apr. 2019
  • The cadence that the show works at is so crazy in a very fun way.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The right reform is not to halve the cadence.
    — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • The video speed seems to max out around 75 points of cadence.
    — Samantha Hissong, Rolling Stone, 30 Apr. 2021
  • There’s a certain cadence to that that takes months or years.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Here is the sweeping cadence that keeps floors fresh.
    — Jamie Cuccinelli, Martha Stewart, 8 Jan. 2026
  • When cadence is missing, teams don’t just slow down.
    — Gerald J. Leonard, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Their cadences, and the cadence of the wider tech world, hooked me in.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2025
  • The light weight kept my strides feeling easy, even when my cadence picked up.
    — Kristen Geil, Outside, 22 Sep. 2025
  • That cadence will shape how the roster fills out through the game's first year.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • This is a flight cadence of a little more than one mission a year.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2022
  • And his cadence is expected to pick up over the next few weeks.
    — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
  • And his cadence is expected to pick up over the next few weeks.
    — Francesca Chambers, The Enquirer, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Hawke has to sustain the rhythm and cadence of long speeches.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 30 Aug. 2025
  • If the bird is singing, try to remember the length and cadence of its song.
    — Matt Goulet, Popular Mechanics, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Maybe offensive line-wise with the cadence and stuff like that.
    — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Kokalari says that with this cadence, onboarding could take up to a year.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The joke had the cadence and payoff of a classic hard laugh, but with an edge.
    — Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The players’ eyes are locked in as the coaches speak in rapid-fire cadences.
    — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Just like the right cadence, word choice, word economy, all of that.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 13 Mar. 2020
  • There was a natural cadence that came out.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 24 June 2026
  • But Starship still hasn’t flown this year, let alone at such a fast cadence.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The app tracks heart rate, speed, cadence, and distance data on the screen.
    — Diana Kelly Levey, Health, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Yet the cadence of conflict — and the threat of new war — hung low over the horizon.
    — Cameron Hudson, semafor.com, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The cadence matters—and most teams have it backward.
    — Daria Rudnik, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • The bass lines changed, the pockets changed, the cadence, the writing.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 6 Nov. 2023

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