Example sentences for: phonetically

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

  • (If you want an actor to flesh out an underwritten character, don't hire MacDowell, who tends to sound as if she learns her lines phonetically.)

  • Except for proper names, the spelling checker stopped on two words in the Time paragraphs that were not in its lexicon: show- biz and credentialed . Likewise two words in Pepys's entry gave pause to the checker, though they are not so much lost words as obsolete forms of words: hath and doth . I should add that where Pepys phonetically wrote then he meant than and that he used the adjective handsome to describe his financial condition, as we would rarely do today.

  • It seems the character “fó” is being used phonetically a second time around in Florida .

  • Ernest Hemingway in such books as For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea wrote some dialogue in language that was phonetically English but suggests Spanish by its simpler, more formal grammar.

  • And phonetically, Volk ... which has an initial f-sound seemed too removed from vag ... to apply.


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