Sentence examples for accent points from inspiring English sources

He held two maracas in one hand and hammered them down at perfect accent points on a clenched high-hat cymbal.

Our guide, Izu, in an incongruently broad New York accent, points to a place where Jimi Hendrix once hid to avoid getting busted.

In the same way, the straightened, vibrato-less tone that Anonymous 4 produces, along with the touches of portamento and the little two-note downward hitches that serve as accent points, sound ancient and American at the same time.

"Money," the woman said in a heavy accent, pointing at the new box.

Man (American accent – pointing at a pastry – wry smile) "I'll take one of those".

What am I going to say, 'I'll have that right there'?" she said, in a jacked-up Brummie accent, pointing to an air menu.

As they walked by the Hardinge Inc. booth, a Brazilian employee with a thick accent pointed at the group of students.

In an interview at a restaurant near Kaffee Burger, Mr. Kaminer, who speaks German well with a pronounced Russian accent, pointed out that the Soviet cultural tradition in which he was raised no longer exists.

"He must have started down there," Greenhouse said in his broad Bronx accent, pointing across the exposed bedrock, across the water, towards the tall grass in front of the open-air Delacorte theatre, "and finished here".

"Parker '51,'" he said tersely, with an extreme accent, pointing at the letters on the clip.

Othman Othman drove to work at Kuwait TV the morning of the invasion, as he always did, and he was stunned when a man with an Iraqi accent pointed a machine gun at his white BMW.