Example Sentences

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Presently her ear was charmed by Fraulein's slow clear enunciation, her pure unaspirated North German.

From Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 by Richardson, Dorothy Miller

It will be found, as a rule, that an Englishman imparts a slight aspirate to his p’s, t’s, k’s and ch’s, and therefore has greater difficulty with the unaspirated words in Chinese.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various

Surely too, Sir, a diphthong is long; so that the name Apœcides should not be rendered Appy-cides, as if the name were an unaspirated pronunciation of Happy Cides.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Jan 27, 1872 by Various

In short, to judge from what was told me, there seems to have been little to distinguish them from frolicsome undergraduates, save their poverty-stricken clothes and their unaspirated speech.

From Change in the Village by Sturt, George