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

For one thing, recognize that he came to the United States past puberty--when a young man's voice changes, so do his chances for assuming a "native" accent.
I pronounced scone to rhyme with John , and I was upset a little when the waitress brought it to me and said, in a pleasant English accent, “Your scone sir,” rhyming it with Joan . I wondered if I should switch to the Joan-pronunciation now that I am living in veddy English Victoria.
If you have heard the name of Canada's prime minister (Jean Chrétien) pronounced correctly, or if you are sufficiently acquainted with French to know this fairly common name (which means Christian), you do not need to know that an acute accent is usually put over an e to indicate that it is a long e in an unstressed syllable.
Finally, at a farm in Perry, Iowa, Gore swapped his gray suit and tie for khakis and a barn coat, turned up the treble on his Tennessee accent, and strutted his ag-stuff, explaining that he wanted to step up antitrust enforcement against industrial hog producers.
Even without the visual clue of the hooked nose, Watto's accent is clearly Yiddish, not Turkish.