Sentence examples for one consonant from inspiring English sources

Punning is less an ornament on Ricks's critical prose than one of its central methods, one consonant with the kind of linguistically embedded meanings he wants to excavate in the first place.

Do any have just the one consonant?

Too patrician, too gentrified.... There's a very simple remedy: the excision of one syllable and one consonant.

For instance, in a phenomenon known as the McGurk effect, people can be made to hear one consonant when a similar one is being spoken.

The dynamics of human interaction – hierarchy, solidarity, disdain or admiration – can turn a high vowel into a low one, replace one consonant with another, and make would-be prime ministers sound like comedians.

There are other ways to assess the political skills of a President who won two terms, as only seventeen of forty-four Presidents have, and did so as a black man, with an African father and a peculiar name, one consonant away from that of the world's most notorious terrorist.

There hasn't been a one-consonant player in the Premier League.

Rival news-gathering organisation dapd reported yet another name, fittingly with one changed consonant: "We didn't play against Hüppelbüpp," they quoted the coach as saying.

Species as unlike as turkeys and kangaroos, with nothing more in common than one shared consonant, k, are corralled together in the midst of a thoroughfare where many other kinds press in.

The Heinrichses' task was further complicated because Pirahã, like a few other Amazonian tongues, has male and female versions: the women use one fewer consonant than the men do.

"To make it scary, I omitted the perfect fifth, which is the one true consonant in the chromatic scale, and highlighted the diminished fifth, which ever since the Middle Ages in Europe has been known as the Devil's Interval". There shouldn't, theoretically, be anything scary about a musical interval.