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:
Other substitutions do not qualify as either homonyms or homophones, but they are interesting nonetheless.
Homophones can be pure poison in a speech.
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.
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 .
The same thing, essentially, that makes homophones horrendous no-nos in speeches.
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