Words similar to homophones
- homemade
- homes
- homicide
- homog
- homographs
- homologs
- homologues
- homology
- homology-based
- homomeric
- homophobes
- homophobia
- homophobic
- homophone
- homophone--
- homophones
- homophonic
- homophonous
- homophony
- homoplasies
- homoplasmic
- homopolymeric
- homopolymers
- homoscedastic
- homosexual
- honesty
- hong
- hoof-print
- hoof-prints
Example sentences for: homophones
How can you use “homophones” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
' Thus in the Chinese spoken language of that time we have two homophones, one meant `the Viet (people or kingdom),' the other simply `extreme, to exceed.
In my English, as in that of most Americans, bawd/bored/board, sword/sawed/ soared , and or/oar/awe/ore are not homophones; I pronounce bawd/sawed differently from board and or/oar/ore differently from awe .
If meaning is to emerge without ambiguity from a language like English, largely uninflected and having many homonyms and homophones, writers must be able to recognize not just the Parts of Speech but also those peripatetic words that wander from one category to another.
Other substitutions do not qualify as either homonyms or homophones, but they are interesting nonetheless.
Obviously homophones usually need to be written in order to make sense, but let's experiment with the following anyway:
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