Example sentences for: pronounce

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

  • Newsweek 's cover focuses more on America's gun culture but prefers to pronounce this a "senseless tragedy."

  • Most critics find her angry monologues about rape and Jesse Helms "obvious" and "dull" (Linda Winer, Newsday ). Predictably, conservatives pronounce her smut unworthy of government funding.

  • Gone is the time when one might make a reasonably accurate guess at a person's race or nationality by his name; today, when blacks who do not adopt Arabic names or names like Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones might be named Kelly or Murphy, Jews born as Greenberg change their name to Monteverdi or Vermont, Hirsch to Cerf, and so forth, and people with Slavic and Italian names either change its spelling in an attempt to get people to pronounce it as closely as possible to the original (e.g.

  • "[A] book as moving as Job's" (Thomas Mallon, the New York Times Book Review ). "[B]eguilingly poetic" (Albert Mobilio, the Village Voice ). As they invariably do with art by and/or about invalids, critics grandiloquently pronounce the book a "testament to the human spirit" (Malcolm Jones Jr., Newsweek ). (Click here for excerpts.)

  • If you want to know how to pronounce homozygote , all that is given is


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