Sentences with SPIRANT
Check out our example sentences below to help you understand the context.Sentences
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"She spoke with a soft spirant voice."
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"The spirant sound of the wind in the trees was soothing."
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"He had a distinct spirant quality in his pronunciation."
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"The spirant consonant 's' is common in English."
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"The singer's spirant notes created an ethereal atmosphere."
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"The language had a complex spirant phonology."
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"The spirant airflow created a gentle breeze."
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"Her spirant whisper barely reached my ears."
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"The spirant quality of his breath made it hard to understand him."
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"The spirant texture of the fabric felt smooth against her skin."
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"The English language has several spirant consonant sounds, such as /f/, /v/, /s/, /z/."
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"The word 'father' starts with a voiceless labiodental spirant /f/."
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"In Old English, the letter 'Ã' represented the voiceless dental spirant /θ/."
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"Many languages, including Spanish and Italian, have the voiced dental spirant /ð/ as in the word 'the'."
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"A common fricative spirant in English is the voiceless alveolar sibilant /s/."
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"The consonant sound /z/ is a voiced alveolar spirant."
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"The voiced postalveolar spirant /Ê/ can be heard in the word 'pleasure'."
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"Greek has the voiced postalveolar non-sibilant spirant /Ê/, made by the letter 'ζ'."
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"The spirant /x/ is a voiceless velar fricative, found in German 'Bach' and Scottish 'loch'."
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"The letter 'j' in Spanish represents the spirant sound /x/ in 'jalapeño'."
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"Old English used the letter 'w' to represent the velar voiced spirant /É£/."
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"The voiced uvular fricative spirant /Ê/ can be heard in French 'rue' or German 'Rache'."
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"The spirant /ç/ is a voiceless palatal fricative in Portuguese 'força'."
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"Russian has the voiced palatal fricative spirant /Ê/ represented by the Cyrillic letter 'ж'."
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"The voiced palatal non-sibilant spirant /Ê/ can be found in Polish 'rzeka'."
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"In Mandarin Chinese, the sound written as 'x' is a voiceless velar fricative spirant /É/."
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"The voiceless retroflex sibilant /Ê/ is a spirant sound in languages like Hindi and Bengali."
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"The spirant /ɧ/ is a voiceless coarticulated fricative found in Swedish 'sjö' or 'kanske'."
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"Lithuanian has a voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant spirant /É/ written as 'Å¡'."
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"The occurrence of a spirant sound /Ê/ is rare in most languages, but it exists in Scottish English 'whale'."
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"The phoneme /f/ is an example of a spirant."
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"In phonetics, /s/ and /z/ are classified as spirants."
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"She pronounced the /v/ sound as a spirant."
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"The spirants in English are produced by forcing the air through a narrow channel."
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"Some languages have more spirants than others."
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"The pronunciation of the spirant /θ/ varies among dialects."
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"The distinction between voiced and voiceless spirants is important in many languages."
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"The Spanish language has a number of spirants, such as /β/ and /ɣ/."
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"The spirant /h/ is known as the voiceless glottal fricative."
