Example sentences for: pronounces

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

  • Then up popped a descendant of Edmund Halley, the man who discovered the comet; he said the family pronounces its name to rhyme with holly, brolly (as in umbrella), Good Golly, Miss Molly . I consulted a dictionary (about 40 years too late), and it sided with the TV announcers.

  • Bob Schieffer (CBS's Face the Nation ) pronounces the White House's savaging of Starr "an all-out attack."

  • This includes conservatives such as Tucker Carlson ( LE ) and John McLaughlin ( MG ), who pronounces Hillary "a hit.

  • "This dense, mesmerizing novel will leave readers stunned, as if waking from a horrific sunburnt daydream," pronounces Gillian Flynn of Entertainment Weekly . Says Time 's John Skow of the "quirky trilogy": "a reader might conclude: brilliant, obsessive, panoramic--and two novels too many."

  • But now the student of Dialect C sees the word written posts and pronounces it [pos\?\s].


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