Example Sentences

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The city has asked translators to furnish names that are transliterated, a process that more closely approximates English pronunciations.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2024

Associated Press journalists saw some walls cracked or partially collapsed in the empty Aksu country village of Youkakeyamansu, a name transliterated in Mandarin from Uyghur.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2024

Then again, that style was forged in private with no sense of an audience, as she transliterated, for example, R.E.M.’s cryptic mumbles into her own gender-flipped riddles.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2021

But this wasn’t just hip-hop; the RZA transliterated a supernatural creole of comic books and 5 Percent Islam, criminology rap and creaky Memphis soul samples, kung fu flicks and street hustler slang.

From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2020

The Islamic statement of faith, in transliterated Arabic: there is no God but God.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green