Example sentences for: pronounce

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

  • But most people happily went on introducing words like le workshop, le tour-operator (they insist on the hyphen), le self (self-service restaurant), le must (the thing to wear), le pick-up (the truck or the record player, not the girl), le hi-fi (pronounce: “eefee”).

  • Still less is science competent to pronounce on the existence of the human soul.

  • There is a successful pop ballad called “Lady in Red” that worries me every time I hear it because the singer, Mr. de Burgh, has to struggle through three lines ending with the words chance, dance , and romance . As far as I can recall, he pronounces chance with a sharp “a,” and dance with a long “a,” and then he finds himself in the disastrous position of having to pronounce romance with a long “a,” too.

  • In Spain Andalusian Gypsies sometimes lisp their s's and pronounce their soft c's and z's as s .

  • I now officially pronounce the art of the comic strip dead.


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