Example sentences for: accent

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

  • Over the same period speakers of the standard English accent learned to drop the final d 0which for centuries had been attached when ordinary folk talked of a scholard and his gownd.

  • Nurses in the hospital teased him about his accent and began referring to me as wee Jock .

  • The other day I had a letter from someone who wanted to know the name for the accent over the r in Dvořak , which happens to be among the two or three things I know.

  • Although all very different in appearance, they are brought together by an open space which has recently been redesigned and replanted to accent the buildings.

  • Leuchter, who looks a little like the archetypal movie dweeb Charles Martin Smith and has a heavy exurbs-of-Boston accent, explains how he became involved in redesigning problematic electric chairs.


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