Sentence examples for sound consonant from inspiring English sources

Extremes of human nature, dire and exalted, are the subjects of Bradford Cox's songs for his band Deerhunter; and extremes of sound, consonant and bristling, are his vehicle.

The subjects were instructed to listen to each sound sequence and to decide whether the final sound was identical to the first or second sound (consonant test), or identical to the first or second sound or neither (vowel test).

These are combinations of phonemes, that is, small units of speech sound (consonants or vowels) that are capable of conveying a distinction in meaning.

The whole business of riding herd on vowel sounds, consonants, and how the word sits on the note requires talent and a little luck.

You can use these definitions to define consonance and dissonance objectively, but most Westerners know instantly whether a sound is consonant or dissonant and they prefer consonance.

Some of the most common piggyback pairs include the following: Gn, pn and kn - in these piggyback pairs you can only hear the "n" sound, the consonant preceding the "n" is silent.

For each consonant sound, write its consonant sound symbol (Example's consonant sound symbols: KRSZH).

If your name begins with a consonant sound, play with the sound plus the first vowel sound of the name.

Consonance occurs where a consonant sound is repeated throughout a sentence without putting the sound only at the front of a word.

Y-vowel sounds, which can directly follow consonant sounds to change the pronunciation.

Affricate, also called semiplosive, a consonant sound that begins as a stop (sound with complete obstruction of the breath stream) and concludes with a fricative (sound with incomplete closure and a sound of friction).