Sentence examples for appropriate accent from inspiring English sources

Government officials considered the time ball an appropriate accent on municipal buildings.

Chorizo often dominates preparations, but in Mr. Lippman's hands it was an appropriate accent.

A woman of wide interests, she spoke fluent French (acquired with the appropriate accent in New Orleans) and undertook the Grand Tour, on which she met and married Samuel George Bernal, a moderately prosperous Irish dairy farmer.

And while they may seem odd as a backdrop for a hospital-room encounter, their continued presence is an appropriate accent for a story whose essence is old-fashioned romance.

Ms. Daly said she had fun with a line in which la Divina reels off a list of international cities in which she performed, saying each one in its appropriate accent.

The stars were the "voices" - Jimmy Hibbert, Martin Oldfield and Jayne Dowell - who read the excerpts with gusto in the appropriate accent or, in the case of the Times chief foreign commentator, Bronwen Maddox, who to my ear sounds American, with a Welsh lilt.

People's names, in whatever language, should also be given appropriate accents where known.

The humour lies in the gulf between fantasies and realities, in the absurdly mundane mugshots that accompany the emails, and in the ludicrous, but strangely appropriate, accents that Martinez bestows upon them.

He proceeded to speak in a thick, appropriated accent.

We found that children remembered facts about the contrast set better when the target word had an appropriate contrastive accent earlier than when it had a presentational accent.

Only the English actress Kate Beckinsale manages an appropriate American accent.