Example Sentences

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Cultural references roll off characters' tongues like they were pronouncing their "rr's."

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2023

He decried the murdered demonstrators at Kent State and once said, “I’m not interested in victims,” as if he were pronouncing an irrefutable mathematical theorem.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2018

At our first stop, we learned, among other things, that we were pronouncing Newfoundland wrong.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2016

Admit it: you were pronouncing the word “Smaug” — the name of the Hobbit dragon, the one who’s in the subtitle of the upcoming movie installation — as “smog.”

From Time • Dec. 9, 2013

Treebeard rumbled for a moment, as if he were pronouncing some deep, subterranean Entish malediction.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien