Words similar to consonant
Example sentences for: consonant
How can you use “consonant” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Middle English, however, had many other ways to play around with a first name to make new nicknames, including the seven patterns of consonant substitution discussed below.
Only in Switzerland did I find someone who truly tried to get it right, but the effort involved putting his tongue out at me and concluded with an overly explosive final consonant; but he got all the bits in there.
Tungsten was first discovered in the United States in 1819, along with tellurium (with the symbol Te, it comes from Latin tellus , another word for terra , both meaning earth; compare the consonant shift between Latin puer , boy, and puella, girl) in Huntington, Connecticut, in a bismuth mine.
rhotic accent Non-rhotic accents drop the /r/ when it is followed by a consonant sound, as in part.
But none of that explains why we're not using, say, Y2M--which simply replaces the consonant representing the Greek term for thousand with the one for "mille," its Latin counterpart.