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Example sentences for: accent

How can you use “accent” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

For example, the spelling of the name of the Benedictine monastery St-Benoît du Lac contains a hyphen instead of a period, as well as a circumflex accent.
A poodle will bite you for forgetting to put the accent mark over the "e" in André.
A regional accent has only recently come to be seen as a bar to advancement in politics.
I have been here for almost three years, and I still haven't developed that American accent.
For confirmation, see this week's fall preview in New York magazine: "Nathan Zuckerman sits silently as another of Roth's blue-eyed Jews is built up and destroyed, this time by a self-involved actress with a Jewish past, a demanding daughter, and a British accent.