Example sentences for: pronouncing

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

  • The inhabitants of my own home county of Suffolk used to be noted for pronouncing the word wholly to rhyme with bully , just as Elizabeth I would have done, while everyone else rhymed it with holy .

  • (The vice president actually came out to dedicate it, pronouncing the occasion as nothing less than the attainment of civilization: "When foreign investors see that big M, they know we're not running around in loincloths."

  • The above advertisement appeared in the Chicago Tribune Pronouncing Dictionary , Clark and Longley, 1886.

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

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


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