Example sentences for: pronounce

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

  • Unless I'm missing a classical allusion, why is it not just dreamt ? The dictionary says “hoofs, rarely hooves” but only “roofs”; perhaps we tend to pronounce it as “rooves.”

  • 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”).

  • The Japanese spell and pronounce what they hear and are accustomed to pronounce, much as Americans are inclined to say “Kindagarden,” “ekscape,” “lawnjeray,” “asterik,” and “ekcetera.”

  • Maybe I'm just another piney woods hick, but don't we all pronounce it like that?

  • 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 .


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