Sentence examples for having the accent from inspiring English sources

Thus, the metre of a verse is determined by feet of varying length but always having the accent on the first syllable.

She admits to having the accent and, maybe, even some of the culture.

One wise guy wonders why Scherfig didn't just turn the main character into an exchange student from New Jersey so as to avoid having The Accent at all.

You have the accent down.

Mr. Barbour has the accent of a patrician.

She went to fancy schools and has the accent to prove it.

"I don't think they have a woman who has the accent of Raqqa," she told me.

"Even I though I left there about the age of 1, I think I still have the accent".

"You can afford to find accents charming as long as you're part of the power structure that has the accent of the ruling class," he told The New York Post in 2006.

Although lucky enough to have the accent most commonly judged Britain's favourite, she lives with her boyfriend, standup comedian Gary Delaney from Birmingham, a city often judged to have the least appealing accent.

CALLER: He had the accent, he sounded like one.