Example sentences for: pronouncing

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

  • 1. The headword is syllabified in W , not in L . In older dictionaries the words are syllabified mainly to help in pronouncing them; latterly, syllabication has been used largely to find where a word can be hyphenated at the end of a line of text, though, judging by today's newspapers and magazines, one would be sore put to believe that a dictionary had ever been within the grasp of their editors, proofreaders, or the programmers who wrote the hyphenation programs for the automatic typesetting many of them now employ.

  • For them, for speakers who want to make certain they are using an acceptable pronunciation, the Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names will prove indispensable.

  • The ruminative uh , which most people can faithfully reproduce, used to be spelled as unh , in an attempt to get in that glottal effect, but all it did was mislead youngsters into pronouncing an n where none was intended.

  • I find it a bit strange that you seem so comfortable pronouncing dismissively on Microsoft's legal battles.

  • "CLINTON ACQUITTED DECISIVELY," announced the New York Times . Sunday's talk show pundits scavenged the battlefield, pronouncing Republicans the losers.


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