Sentence examples for as consonant from inspiring English sources

It sounded like a riot in a shortwave radio factory: a fusillade of sustained, pulsating and scurrying electronic tones that adds up to a hyperactive drone, as consonant as the overtone series.

These are defined as consonant triads.

The same, he writes, applies to unusual sound combinations such as consonant clusters.

The alternation of consonants known as consonant gradation (or lenition) is sometimes thought to be of Uralic origin.

Pentecostal pastors anathematized same-sex marriages as contrary to God's law; mainstream ministers pointedly performed them as consonant with God's love.

Sally's post put this cumulative grab-bag of stories set in the punk and post-punk world of the music biz in better perspective for me, especially her analysis of its shifting perspective as consonant with a concept album.

Whereas the semivowels y (IPA: j) and w tend also to be used as consonants, consonants such as ʾ and *H̥ show functional affinities with vowels.

Featural writing systems analyze the sounds described as consonants and vowels into their shared and distinguishing features.

Phonemes may be thought of as roughly equivalent to the sound segments known as consonants and vowels, and combinations of these segments make up syllables.

The Proto-Indo-European resonants, which functioned as vowels in some positions and as consonants in others, were *i, *u, *m, *n, *l, and *r.

There is no demarcation between the familiar and the exotic: whether in English or in Warlpiri, the vocal line maintains an unpredictable, spastic energy, as consonants are repeated in stuttering patterns and vowels are prolonged.