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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:

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.
Your reply to "" regarding his distress over his accent was insufficient, in that you more or less dismissed his concern.
The written accent on the verb is wrong here.
His Southern accent is so impenetrable that during his short-lived but entertaining 1984 presidential run, he was introduced by Ted Kennedy as "the first non-English speaking candidate for president."
One US observer has claimed that non-standard features (grammer and vocabulary as well as accent) have the power to close off a conversation among strangers, bring job interviews to an abrupt end and, when used on the telephone, to render a flat advertised as vacant that morning suddenly to be declared “already let”.