Example sentences for: announcers

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

  • 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.

  • TV and radio announcers seem to obey changes in pronunciation rather than initiating them.

  • 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.

  • Thus, to BBC announcers, President Clinton's residence is the White House , while, to Americans, it is the White House; and I once heard a BBC announcer say Prometheus Bound when an American would have said Prometheus Bound .

  • It is possible that radio and TV announcers are to blame, although the Blue Band example shows that TV is not accepted as an authority on pronunciation, when the purchasers of the product kept on calling it marjoreen in spite of the manufacturer's instructions to the contrary.


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