vocalize
verb (used with object)
to make vocal; utter; articulate; sing.
vocalizes
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present tense formof vocalize (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Take, for example, a chimp who vocalizes and pulls at the bars of their enclosure when someone approaches.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2024
He traverses the stage, wrapping a feather and fabric concoction by the costume designer Marianne Fassler around his body, as he vocalizes mournfully: a requiem for a new generation.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2022
It’s a tale of sound; the song of a solitary whale that vocalizes at a unique frequency, 52 Hertz, that no other whale—as the story goes—can seemingly understand.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 28, 2021
“I don’t want press to put your name next to mine, we’re on different lines,” she vocalizes while casually plucking a pastry from a Donuts and Coffee stand in the middle of the mall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2020
If the vowel-elements have been carefully practiced in vocalizes, there will be little effort required to secure the correct formation of all the vowel-sounds of words.
From The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs by Howard, Francis E.
