Example sentences for: homophones

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

  • 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 .

  • ' 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.

  • homophones: creak/creek; plain/ plane, bow/bough, tear/tare, tear/tier, roe/row, allowed/aloud , etc.; triplets: bawd/bored/board, sword/sawed/soared, cite/sight/sight ; quadruplets: write/right/rite/wright, or/oar/awe/ore --a quintuplet if you allow Aw as in US expression Aw gee!

  • 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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