Her one-syllable question came out as a soft sigh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sweet Anger]

Kat, I'm a big believer in one-syllable pet names.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sorry, No Recipe Today] Reference

But they're both these one-syllable grunts of words.    From Wordnik.com.  [elephants Diary Entry] Reference

I always envied people with one-syllable last names.    From Wordnik.com.  [bitch] Reference

Louis softly spoke a one-syllable word meaning impotence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ringworld Engineers]

Luckily, we both have very short, one-syllable last names.    From Wordnik.com.  [What’s In A Name? | Her Bad Mother] Reference

When I talk to myself out loud, it's usually in one-syllable words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Matlack: Manologues: What Do You Say to Yourself When No One Is Around?] Reference

I prefer to be called by the pretentious, one-syllable “Corte.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edge] Reference

Well, he would if he lowered himself to respond in one-syllable words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are You Ready to Indulge Yourself?] Reference

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trivial Facts] Reference

CARLSON: You think -- you think all the one-syllable name people are upset.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: The Spin Room: Election 2000 Goes to the Florida Supreme Court - November 17, 2000] Reference

If he sensed deceit, he would start answering questions in one-syllable words.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Echo]

It was the code of the muscle obsessed, who seemed to prefer one-syllable words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life Support] Reference

Both sexes give a one-syllable shriek, but females also have a two-syllable call.    From Wordnik.com.  [5 Chicken] Reference

Another factor for The Hague, I believe, is that one-syllable placenames are rare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Place Names with Definite Articles] Reference

Process Reflection: One hundred one-syllable words for an archetypal human situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

When next I return to the house, I offer our pup a one-syllable English order: "Come!".    From Wordnik.com.  [French Word-A-Day:] Reference

Then one-syllable, and two-syllable words, and finally to read a book held upside down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference

"Can you take a common one-syllable word, add one letter and make a three-syllable word?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bridge] Reference

Xue is pronounced shoo-way, but when pronounced quickly it blurs into a one-syllable word.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE SECOND MARK] Reference

"It's only twelve" I'm telling him but he's just mumbling a one-syllable word I can't hear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference

The characters in action movies, for instance, always seem to get strong one-syllable names.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Most Popular Man In Movies. Well, Kinda: Bryan Burrough] Reference

All I need to know to understand you simians are one-syllable words – mostly hollow words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Dick Cheney makes surprise appearance at CPAC to chants of ‘Cheney! Cheney! Cheney!’] Reference

It's a simple trick to break up long sentences and use a lot of one-syllable words when necessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Readability.] Reference

War cannot be made less intricate by conjuring everyone to return to kindergarten and henceforth use only one-syllable words.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference

As I sat in her classroom, she carefully enunciated the word "cat" while holding up a finger for each sound in the one-syllable word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons From Locke] Reference

A lot of parents feel skittish about one-syllable names.    From Wordnik.com.  [ParentDish] Reference

Gotta worry about the sanity of these one-syllable guys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Keep the world-view, just change the one-syllable words.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

In that time I could have said three one-syllable words like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bucstats.com] Reference

Never uses a one-syllable word when he can think of a longer one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Images from The Works of Mark Twain] Reference

They were not babies to be fed with a string of one-syllable words!.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Prisoner in Fairyland] Reference

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Pirates! Man Your Women!] Reference

Say it as a one-syllable word with no vowel sound between the g and the n.    From Wordnik.com.  [LinuxInsider] Reference

He is able to assemble two one-syllable words, but not a complete sentence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gay/Lesbian Forum] Reference

In one-syllable words, the bones become thin, crisp and will be simply damaged.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to These old eyes] Reference

She had such immense gravity, such intensity over her one-syllable statements of fact.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Branding Iron] Reference

Get a life, trying reading something besides picture books with one-syllable words and moaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference