Example sentences for: announcers

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

  • One of these elite announcers, reports the Journal , once inadvertently worked for both sides of a campaign.

  • Then up popped a descendant of Edmund Halley, the man who discovered the comet; he said the family pronounces its name to rhyme with holly, brolly (as in umbrella), Good Golly, Miss Molly . I consulted a dictionary (about 40 years too late), and it sided with the TV announcers.

  • Recently a polished, precise form of General American has come to be called Network Standard: it is the speech of many of the prominent announcers and commentators on national television.

  • Standard English meant the King's English, and in this outpost of Empire, announcers (though unseen) wore dinner suits to read the news and abided by the rulings of the English phonetician Daniel Jones, whose tremendously influential English Pronouncing Dictionary was first published in 1917.

  • Although it might be seen as commendable to make the interpretation of pronunciation symbols as easy as possible for the laziest users, I have little sympathy for the policy: in most cases, those who are too lazy to learn even the rudimentary respelling systems used in popular dictionaries (like the various college and desk dictionaries) are also too lazy to look up the pronunciation of a name or word, as is evidenced daily in the utterances of newscasters and announcers.


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