Sentence examples for east accent from inspiring English sources

He disappears into the kindly New England doctor, briny Down East accent and all.

"I said, 'You've got to be joking,' " said Mr. Alley, a towering man who speaks with an unmistakable Down East accent.

He was in his mid-80s and spoke with a thick Down East accent, the kind that would be unintelligible to anyone from out of state.

His family moved to Kennebunkport, Me., when he was in his teens, and he acquired a thick Down East accent that became a hallmark of his speaking style, along with a growling baritone and a penchant for oratorical flourish.

I answered that we did, and he asked sternly, "Then why you say 'Pak'?" My husband and I burst out laughing; when we explained our Down East accent, our driver also laughed.

Though in the novel Chester's Mill is set in Maine, no wretchedly overdone Down East accents are imposed in this adaptation.

As I backcast, a lobster boat chugged across our path and distinctive Down East accents could be heard over the diesel engine.

The performers don't just look right; they also sound right, thanks to Down East accents perfected by the dialect coaching of Gillian Lane Plescia and brilliant, accurate singing directed by Goodspeed's resident musical wizard, Michael O'Flaherty.

Elizabeth Strout's new "novel in stories" brings to life a hardscrabble community on the coast of Maine, a quintessentially New England town where people serve baked beans and ketchup when company comes and speak in familiar Down East accents ("ay-yuh").

Jake spoke with a thick north-east accent.

While she speaks with only a faint North-east accent, she still seems very attached to her roots.