Sentence examples for initial sound from inspiring English sources

Aerophone, any of a class of musical instruments in which a vibrating mass of air produces the initial sound.

Alliteration refers to the repetition of the initial sound of words in a phrase or sentence ("Hooray for Diffendoofer Day").

As a child, I exhibited the classic repeated initial sound, nailed so c-c-c-cruelly by Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead Revisited's Anthony Blanche.

Formed in Dublin in 1984, the group developed its initial sound as a reaction against what other bands were doing, Mr. Shields said.

Originally, graphs were perhaps "motivated" pictorial signs that were subsequently used to represent the initial sound of the name of the pictured object.

Aside from revelations of self-doubt, the singer discussed the band's recent listening habits, describing how the quartet had turned their attention back to the music which helped them form their initial sound.

Did the stalemate drag on because Mr. Bush followed his initial, sound-tough instincts before fully consulting some China experts (who are hard to find in this administration) about what words an increasingly nationalistic China needed to hear?

Examples are the initial sounds in the words fie, thigh, sigh, and shy.

Clicks are used extensively in the vocabulary of Khoisan languages, and they are the initial sounds in approximately 70 percent of the words.

The initial sounds, although different, correspond regularly according to the pattern discovered by Jacob Grimm and named Grimm's law after him; the other differences can be explained by other regular sound changes.

Their language has affinities with both Cantonese, the language of the people of Guangdong province, and Mandarin, the language of much of northern and central China; many of the Hakka tongue's initial sounds are a bridge between the two dialects.