Example sentences for: consonants

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

  • In addition, several consonants do double duty by adding a dot within the letter.

  • The time of Bede and Beowulf were the hey-days--or ha! -days--for the letter h . Besides providing early aspiration for many words, h did yeoman service in front of the consonants l, n, r , and w .

  • , etc.) and the law of open syllables that causes the first of two consonants that come together in a Spanish word to be dropped, most commonly in the case of ll, which prescriptively should be pronounced as ly but is much more often pronounced as y alone.

  • The alphabet was trimmed of a letter that had become phonetically superfluous, as c has become in English, and the orthography was simplified by the omission of the hard sign after final hard consonants.

  • He had therefore had it changed to Hittli , which involved the sacrifice of only two consonants.


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