accent - use in sentences

Object

  • vowel: To type accented vowels, use your normal method of doing this under Windows.
  • character: Your best choice is to prepare a version without any Polish accented characters at all.

Converse of object

  • imitate: People still imitate German accents that they hear in WWII films, although modern Germans do not speak like this anymore.
  • annoy: Once weâre done, Iâm just going to hang out with my brother and speak in as many different annoying accents as we can.
  • adopt: If actors are going to adopt a scouse accent, please stick to it throughout the play.
  • distinguish: The accuracy of distinguishing American accent and British accent is 83 % .

Adjective modifier

  • cockney: The cockney accent had disappeared; Winston suddenly realized whose voice it was that he had heard a few moments ago on the telescreen.
  • Glaswegian: A smile, a nod, a polite little " OK " in a Glaswegian accent.
  • posh: No posh accents on T.V. No sharks swimming in the custard.
  • Scouse: Yet from his beer belly to his Scouse accent, Kilfoyle is almost a caricature of an old Labor MP.
  • Jamaican: Parents, start practicing your best Jamaican accent now!
  • Irish: The man has a strong Irish accent, believed by the witness to be Southern Irish.

Modifies a noun

  • lighting: Del Lighting Del Lighting designs superior fiber optic lighting systems for commercial lighting, accent lighting, starfields, landscape or pool lighting.
  • correction: Advanced English speech synthesis, accent correction function, and specialized terms database will help you communicate with utmost efficiency.

Noun used with modifier

  • scouse: If actors are going to adopt a scouse accent, please stick to it throughout the play.
  • cut-glass: His cut-glass accent was too strong, often making it difficult to understand what he was saying.
  • manc: Coronation St tho is not truly representative of Manchester or a Manc accent.. .
  • decor: My Serendipity's Gifts My Serendipity Gifts, home decor and home decor accents.
  • chrome: Tasteful chrome accents are inlayed into the color-coordinated front bumper just below the headlamps.
  • pitch: Pitch and stress: Japanese is only minimally semantically tonal, tho the majority of dialects have a word pitch accent.

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