Example sentences for: pronouncing

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

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

  • But those who make a big thing of correctly pronouncing their wh words should know that it is impossible.

  • To my chagrin, all the TV anchors came on the air pronouncing it YER-in-us, making it sound as though it were part of a procedure designed to produce a specimen in a bottle.

  • 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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