Example Sentences

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The real-life Ayala “was pretty much raised in Chicago” and “speaks accentless English,” while his on-screen counterpart speaks with a thicker accent.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2024

Linguistic researchers like us suggest the answer is complicated — no one becomes truly "accentless," but accents can and do change over time.

From Salon • Jan. 7, 2023

Born in Beijing, Chen, who speaks accentless English, attended Berkeley and Wharton, but then turned down a job at Amazon to come back home, believing that China’s tech scene offered more opportunity than Silicon Valley.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 16, 2018

Sang now sports a graying ponytail and accentless Mandarin, but keeps a string of Buddhist prayer beads wrapped around his wrist.

From Reuters • May 20, 2010

The recitation of what has been thus got by heart is therefore of course accentless.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich