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:

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.
Generally, too, Chinese does not have consonant groups or words ending in a vowel (except the nasal -ng [η] as in běijīng ).
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.
National sovereignty is overrated, according to an article . Supporting nationalist aspirations is humanistic and consonant with the United States' rebellious roots.
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.