As the multitude rose in cadenced waves of emotion, the soul seemed to shrink, to become more remote.
Verses, rhymes, lines metrical and cadenced—those are my dissipation.
Only a ship's boat heavily manned could make that cadenced noise of oars.
A volume of poems, lines metrical and cadenced; something by a sound Victorian.
From all the cafs, restaurants, and hotels, comes the musical rise and fall of the cadenced violins.
While still very young, he has often cadenced their steps to the chords of his piano.
Nothing is more widespread than this belief in the supernatural virtue of singing, of the cadenced and modulated word.
A few minutes in cadenced marching and then the command, “Rout step–March!”
At length, however, his forehead grew serene and he went towards the Rue de Richelieu with sublime and cadenced step.
A voice—the soft, cadenced voice of the negro—addressed him.
late 14c., "flow of rhythm in verse or music," from Middle French cadence, from Old Italian cadenza "conclusion of a movement in music," literally "a falling," from Vulgar Latin *cadentia, from neuter plural of Latin cadens, present participle of cadere "to fall" (see case (n.1)). In 16c., sometimes used literally for "an act of falling." A doublet of chance (n.).