Sentence examples for consonant like from inspiring English sources

To form Pig Latin words from words beginning with a consonant (like hello) or a consonant cluster (like switch), simply move the consonant or consonant cluster from the start of the word to the end of the word.

A renowned Shakespearean actor, he hits every iamb, every crisp consonant, like a hurdler running to glory.

A suspension is something that composers set up in music to sort of make us feel a particular way, and they'll start with this by having a note be consonant [plays piano] and then having — moving the harmony underneath of it [plays piano] to a dissonance [thereby suspending the upper note as a dissonance] and then [plays piano] resolving it to a consonant like that or maybe [plays piano].

Ok, so, when there is a short vowel sound before a consonant, like a in happy, we often double the consonant after it.

An initial noisy portion resembles a noisy consonant like 's' or 't', while the second tonal portion is more vowel-like.

Practice these vowel sounds by adding any consonant like,"paa paw poh poo pay pee pie, saw saw soh soo say see sigh.. ..

Furthermore, no valid pretext justifies dismissing heuristically the production of new voiceless consonant-like calls by great apes.

Moreover, she seemed to be stringing together vowel and consonant-like sounds.

The researchers found that both the orangutan's unvoiced clicks (consonant-like sounds) and voiced "faux-speech" (vowel-like grumbles) were produced at a rhythm similar to human speech.

In José Luis Greco's "Vanishing Time," for string quartet and harpsichord, a dense but consonant Gorecki-like opening section built on a slowly descending scale seemed to proclaim that this would be a Minimalist epic.

Great Slavic runs of consonants like in "strpljenje" and "čvrst".