Sentence examples for close consonant from inspiring English sources

With their country hits in the 1950s, the Louvin Brothers became renowned for their close, consonant harmonies -- a model for the Everly Brothers, among many others -- and for songs that saw every grim possibility even when they set out to be optimistic.

O is for Osama, which is close enough only one consonant, folks!–to "Obama" to have caused some red faces early in the campaign.

Closed (checked) syllables are those that end in a consonant; open (free) syllables end in a vowel.

For a syllable to be short, it must end in a short vowel; syllables ending in a long vowel and closed syllables (i.e., those ending in a consonant) are long.

A vowel that is closed off with a consonant will say its short sound.

Ending in a consonant is imperative.

The starting point of /iə/ ranges from a close front [i] after slender consonants to a retracted [i̠] after word-initial broad /ɾˠ/ (the only context in which it appears after a broad consonant).

When, as a result of close contact, Dravidian words with retroflex consonants were borrowed, they too could be taken into Indo-Aryan without changing the retroflex consonants to dentals.

Unstressed /ə/ is realized as a near-close, near-front when adjacent to a palatal consonant, e.g. [ˈpʲiːcɪ] "pike".

The results indicate that the HFEE-Noise source can compensate for the influence of the neck tissue, and shows promising potential for production of an EL voiceless consonant with a spectral shape that is closer to a natural voice.

But where de Monte framed the request in the fluid, overlapping lines and sublimely consonant harmonies of the late Renaissance, Ligeti used close dissonances to create hauntingly eerie, slowly evolving clusters.