Sentence examples for vague accent from inspiring English sources
The phrase "vague accent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an accent that is not clearly defined or is difficult to identify. Example: "She spoke with a vague accent that made it hard to determine where she was from."
But Augustus Melmotte, the speculator who arrives in London in the early 1870's with a vague accent and a rootless past, has so much financial power that he is said to have built a railway across Russia, armed the South in the American Civil War and at one time owned all the iron in England.
As for the film's eclectic, big-name cast, the usually fine Owen feels out of sync as a Brooklyn lowlife, as does Marion Cotillard Canett's real-life partner) as Chris' ex-wife, an unlikely prostitute with a vague accent and some risible dialogue ("I ain't hookin' no more!").
He's appeared as himself in two episodes of 30 Rock, affected a vague accent for a much-discussed cameo in Iron Man (depressingly left on the cutting-room floor), and been immortalized as an action figure draped in a real 14-karat-gold chain.
"I want to be a business lawyer, and I realized you just cannot avoid speaking English," Mr. Timbal, 29, said in vaguely accented English.
It is mostly well-prepared haute nursery food with a vague Continental accent.
He's more effective in the play within the play, tackling the role of the submissive aristocrat with a vague European accent, than he is as the playwright, whose outbursts at Vanda's manipulations don't always have the firepower they should.
"My wife," he said in a vaguely Middle Eastern accent.
Bronx-born, he has a vaguely British accent.
"Every woman feels sexy in lingerie," Kristen says in a familiar, vaguely European accent.
" 'I've come to extract my revenge, sir,' " she said in the vaguely English accent.
"The Americans, it seems, have just committed suicide," he said, in a vaguely British accent.
