Example Sentences

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She remembered seeing that her mother had transliterated the words in her score for Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” into Chinese, so that she could pronounce them correctly.

From New York Times • May 9, 2023

Phillips' low-keyed prose does not match the stately measures of King James's scholars for beauty, but more than compensates by often making clear what they had transliterated word for word from the Hebrew.

From Time Magazine Archive