Example sentences for: pronouncing

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

  • But really the English way of pronouncing baun is beacon; and no living soul can pretend that we left off saying beacon and began saying bone or bon.

  • 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.

  • When I grew up, on the Canadian Prairies, my teachers were mostly WASP and had a hard time spelling or pronouncing my name.

  • When I was young at the bar I heard with delight an old lawyer, who could have played Dickens's Mr. Tulkinghorn, speak grandly of the court of nisi prius (pronouncing it NICEY PRY-US), an utterly obsolete Latinism for the simple trial court . Just as any speaker may, for the sake of euphony (or vanity) flourish an occasional eminence grise or mirabile dictu , may not a lawyer plume himself now and then with an ab initio or even a mutatis mutandis , not to “unite the priesthood’ but to savor his own sonority, as a bird sings also for itself?

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


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