Example sentences for: heteronyms

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

  • Below is the list of heteronyms compiled by Mickey as of August 11, 1989, including my later additions, quart, proceeds, comfort , and axes ; Cosme has come up with entrance , and George Warfel suggested wicked , and contract .

  • To our immeasurable sorrow, Mickey died suddenly on November 9, 1989, and we wish this letter and his list of heteronyms to serve as a memorial to him.

  • Heteronyms are also called homographs.

  • called heteronyms: row, bow, tear, entrance, wound, wind, dove .

  • In the November 1988 issue of Smithsonian , Felicia Lamport held forth on the delights of heteronyms.


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