Sentence examples for initial sounds from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

Endeavor and Voyager have the initial sounds of "En" and "V", hence the initial sounds of Nvidia, while the names also suggest a sense of pushing frontiers.

The name of the MUSIC model is an acronym derived from the initial sounds of the five key components: eMpowerment, Usefulness, Success, Interest, and Caring.

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.