Sentence examples for becomes voiceless from inspiring English sources

"Without black talk," he added, "the community becomes voiceless.

Where a voiced obstruent or /w/ comes into contact with /h/, the /h/ is absorbed into the other sound, which then becomes voiceless (in the case of /w/, devoicing is to /fˠ/).

The simplest explanation would seem to be that, under the operation of what is now called Grimm's law, in some prehistoric period of Germanic (before the development of a number of distinct Germanic languages), the voiced stops inherited from Proto-Indo-European became voiceless and the voiceless stops became fricatives.

In order to account for these correspondences he postulated a cyclical "soundshift" (Lautverschiebung) in the prehistory of Germanic, in which the original "aspirates" became voiced unaspirated stops (bh became b, etc.), the original voiced unaspirated stops became voiceless (b became p, etc.), and the original voiceless (unaspirated) stops became "aspirates" (p became f).

They also have more varied realizations and are more likely to become voiceless sibilants [English: Smith (1997); Dutch: Gussenhoven and Bremmer Jr. (1983); Portuguese: Jesus and Shadle (2003)] or voiced approximants [Gulf Arabic: Holes (1990); Haitian Creole: Tinelli (1981)].

A voiced consonant at the end of a word may become voiceless when the next word begins with a voiceless consonant, as in [l̪ˠuːpˠ ʃeː] "he bent", where the b sound of /l̪ˠuːbˠ/ "bent" has become a p sound before the voiceless s of.

We sat in the consultation room again, the patient and I. His depression was so severe, it had become a voiceless paralysis.

Through her music Vanda becomes the voice for the voiceless.

A dead woman becomes a silent witness in the courtroom, voiceless now, voiceless then.

Social media benefits society by giving a voice and microphone to those who might otherwise be voiceless, but this same benefit becomes a liability in the hands of a sophisticated adversary with a deep budget for paying English-speaking trolls to pose as Americans.

Though she becomes dear to him when she is a voiceless human, he still takes another woman as his bride.