Definition of "cadences" [cadences]

• Plural form of cadence. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cadence. (verb) (verb)

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• "The dialogue, which ducks and jabs in cadences distinct to the Italian-American vernacular, spits forth like inchoate poetry."
• "I find it exceedingly odd for a senior presidential speechwriter not to have recognized those inimitable cadences from the most brilliant political speechwriter in all of history: Winston Churchill."
• "For a while the long Latin cadences sounded on through the church; but pres - [Page 70] ently the curé took up in French the Canticle of the Sacred Heart, composed during the war of 1870, and the little congregation joined their trembling voices in the refrain:"