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    Use "accent" in a sentence

    accent example sentences

    accent


    accented


    accenting


    accents


    1. “Don’t shoot!” It’s a weak voice with a southern accent


    2. "Why, hello there! Are you the Pinkertons?" His old-timey accent made Violet's mother giggle


    3. What I mean to say is who the fuck is it?" His was a thick, rich, cockney accent


    4. The cockney accent, the offer of help at a low moment


    5. "You talking to me?" Her Eastern European accent was strong


    6. The voice had a soft south Dublin accent, female


    7. Although his first impulse was to go to Darklow and shake the small town criminal community into information about a beautiful 19 year old girl with a foreign accent who had been forced into the local sex trade, Melinda's information somehow made him believe that he should stay on course, that all these things were related


    8. The balding grease monkey beside me answered his mobile in yet another thick cockney accent


    9. I tried to speak in my best and most recently learned English accent


    10. Good Arabic, but with a strange accent

    11. "Where is Alan?" he meant to soften it a little but mishandled the controls and only changed his accent a little


    12. He drawls, a slow accent


    13. The accent is on slow and rhythmical movement, as this exercise is much more beneficial to the health and the figure when performed slowly and gracefully


    14. Sarah heard her dragon call to her first, in a rich voice with a thick Scottish accent


    15. My Jackson, come forward so that we may meet properly, cooed a husky female voice with a decidedly British, or was it Irish, accent


    16. ’ She said, her accent coloured by the proximity of the Welsh border


    17. Always nice to hear the English accent way up here in the mountains


    18. They’re doing ‘Mack & Mabel’ and my American accent is dire … however, I’ll be dressing Mabel during the run


    19. ‘Excuse me,’ he said tentatively in a lilting Welsh accent, ‘but are you related to David Grant?’


    20. I am a mere reflection of my Father’s grace… the man answered quickly in a strong, rich voice that had the accent of a dozen worlds

    21. That explains the accent, then


    22. He could hear her accent broadening


    23. His name sounds foreign as she rolls it around her tongue, although he speaks without any accent


    24. appearance which clashed with her markedly Glaswegian accent


    25. Cautiously she surveyed this man – he looked okay, expensively dressed … and his accent was educated


    26. ‘Good afternoon, Dave – how are things with you?’ came the warm Jamaican voice with its incongruous tinge of an East End accent


    27. ” She turned to Kaitlyn, “You are from Cleveland, Ohio? Did I get that right?” Kaitlyn nodded, still smiling at her new friend's accent when pronouncing her hometown


    28. ’ I said in my best ‘upper class’ accent and breaking into giggles at the end of the sentence,


    29. that it was the jibe about his accent and nationality that


    30. ” Harry answered in perfect accent

    31. ” Harry began, and Chloe glanced quickly to Kaitlyn with a cocked eyebrow, as if questioning Harry's sudden accent


    32. “And the lone workman who assisted them, she was quite sure was from the north country, unmistakable accent you know


    33. “You have a slight accent


    34. continued to ramble in that thick-tongued French accent


    35. I never let his slick-tongued accent get to me, or let her eyes tell me our story


    36. he spoke them without a trace of an accent


    37. "That's true," Klowa agreed, "but they might remember the accent


    38. While Klowa was doing that he added, "And oh yeah, he's from Wescarp, probably has a bad accent


    39. be hearing the accent of his native land once more


    40. “But what of the tone? What of the accent and the pace?”

    41. accent on "i" and not on "o", which is reserved


    42. It was the unmistakable South Indian accent of the matka


    43. Or her accent


    44. “Don’t worry, now,” it said in a Bihari accent, “All is safe


    45. “Did you enjoy your mothers’ journal?” His accent was as dark and terrifying as the rest of him


    46. I met up with Sai in the Astral and he was speaking to me with a ridiculous Indian accent


    47. When he came to speak to me his voice suddenly changed from speaking fluent English to a comedic Indian accent with broken phrases


    48. I’ve heard that accent enough in the past year, as have you, I’d imagine


    49. The accent was not totally dissimilar to that of Penelope, but somehow was older


    50. I knew I hadn't put it there as it had a strange accent














































    1. He almost fell in the water when he heard the accented voice behind him and heard footsteps on the dock


    2. Glenelle could hear that he was accented in the native language


    3. “Would you mind if I joined you?” she asked in her clear but still accented voice


    4. He had the same silver on the ridges down his back and around his eyes accented with the purple


    5. " She was posing in ways that accented her already exaggerated figure and pumping out enough pheromones to set off the warning he had programmed into his med panel


    6. The tables were dressed in linen and set with white china place settings, accented with silverware bearing the engraved initials of the Union Pacific Railway on each piece


    7. His speech was a little accented, not surprising from way up there


    8. Not quite as accented as Dos, much less the tribes in the pass


    9. The headsets came alive with the accented voice of Kuala Lumpur air traffic control just after one o’clock in the morning


    10. He hoped she would decide in the positive, because this position accented her shape so he felt a rush of desire

    11. A husky and heavily accented voice suddenly cut through the evening and startled him as he stood up again


    12. At this crucial point in time the big fellow will probably want our full attention,’ Alistair accented the word ‘full’


    13. The sharpness of his long face and chiselled nose was accented by his grey skin - it wasn’t a face that suited laughter


    14. Although they spoke accented English they appeared to have no written language


    15. Waddell had never heard his name accented like this before and


    16. Dressed in a suit accented with leopard furs, the man waiting at the table sneered at Maldynado and did not seem to notice Amaranthe


    17. Welcome!” The strangely accented voice startled her


    18. Fortunately, he already spoke the second, strongly accented Caribbean English, in use by the black population, and the third, Spanish


    19. The blackness of the roofline was accented by twinkling lights inside, silhouetted against a violent sky


    20. Yet, there she was, perched on a bar stool wearing an off-the-shoulder white dress that accented her figure, smiling and beckoning to him

    21. When Colling indicated that he did not understand, the man spoke in accented German to tell him that the English name was “Wenceslas Square,” and Colling made the connection with the Christmas carol


    22. His bleak thoughts were accented by the lack of a good cup of uwe


    23. Those were the exact words he had used, in heavily accented High Helican


    24. The Pilgrim gave a small pause and then continued, in somewhat accented but still quite understandable High Helican:


    25. His mate came to him slowly, a look of anxious questioning again in her eyes accented by her other facial expressions, but not quite fear this time


    26. The senior officer, whose blue collar tabs and hat band marked him as NKVD, was brusque to the point of rudeness when he asked in accented Polish to see Colling’s identification


    27. It jolted him back into the deep memory of a well-mannered childhood for only a tiny moment and the accented yet quite clear voice served to reattach his awareness into the current state of affairs and a very irate woman:


    28. “Dzien Dobry, Kwonowski,” said the man in accented Polish, “What brings you out here?”


    29. At this, the officer that Colling had spoken to first brushed past him and approached the rear passenger door that Helga had left standing open, and stuck his head into the car, smiling at the two little girls and asking in his accented English, “How are you, little girls?”


    30. ” His Polish was accented, and Colling guessed that he was Russian

    31. His face had sharp, hawk-like features, and pointed ears, accented by a wide scar


    32. “No, please, sir,” he begged in heavily accented Nahual, “please leave me here and tell no one you saw me


    33. He was no linguist, in fact his Mongol was still heavily accented, but he enjoyed learning Maya and felt it was a “good” language


    34. In these verses the time frame of Abraham’s circumcision is accented


    35. When Latin customers ordered accented upper


    36. She wore a low cut designer gown, cut to the hip that in life would have nicely accented her assets


    37. To soften with grace the accented pain


    38. Small pearls accented this area in a stars-in-the-sky type of arrangement


    39. My kirtle was also accented with the same dark blue embroidery pattern and pearls


    40. He accented his command with a sharp smack of his club to Moshe and Yigal

    41. Her statement was accented by a series of three short,


    42. His face, already tended to jowls, was accented by a deep frown that had become almost permanent


    43. She spoke French accented Vietnamese, Lochert noted


    44. “Yeah,” Marah answered with a frown that accented his already course features


    45. persistent veil of foglike haze, “whose god does that belong to?” He accented his question with


    46. This was accented by the dull drumming sound of the larger


    47. heavily accented and she relied more on facial expression and tone to get her point across


    48. A cleanly dressed little man greeted me in slightly accented German, proudly introduced himself as an escaped concentration camp inmate and offered me a cigar from a full box


    49. She carried more blond-colored hair than copper, accented with snow-white tips


    50. After a friendly chat in heavily accented English he asked where I was staying, told me I'd be arrested if I slept in a park, and offered to put me up so he could practise speaking English, because he hoped to go to London the following year to earn real money as a waiter













































    1. pronounced A – U – M, accenting each syllable


    2. wasn’t good at accenting things even when they put the accent out there for you, like in Spanish which I could speak


    3. Accenting every phrase with a snapping pull of his arm, Moshe growled


    4. accenting his words with an upthrust of his staff toward Moshe


    5. She was relaxed, even though her clothes hugged her tighter than usual, accenting her unusually beautiful physique


    6. room, casing eerie shadows and accenting the thick cobwebs among the canned


    7. “Shit,” he said, accenting the word by head-butting the head rest, and doing it three more times with the accompanying, “Shit, shit, shit!”


    8. accenting his tone as he spoke, “That"s enough of your bantha fodder,


    9. For that reason, accenting that finger will give it needed


    10. The dust swirled through the air at their passage through the lobby as if it had not been stirred in years, accenting the beams of sunlight as they sliced past the yellowing pillars and made abstract designs on the stained green carpet

    11. Accenting of the breathing on a chakra can be enhanced by the


    12. oted pose accenting on the zone, you are working with


    13. The sun, fairly low on the horizon, struck full force on the houses in this town, accenting their whiteness


    14. I knew that the climax of the piece came on with the gigue, the lively, fast-paced finale, and Harry was rendering it perfectly and faithfully, but with the brilliant accenting that the critics had always acclaimed as uniquely his


    15. I hear you say Buonaparte, accenting the u like the Royalists


    16. "Stupid," said he, accenting the insulting word, with a caressing intonation, "it's outside that it is black


    1. He changed his voice to fit the characters and even got used to the accents suggested by the Bard's scripted lines


    2. Accents of angels


    3. In this city though, there was a babble of foreign languages, accents and dialects we didn"t understand


    4. ’ he said in a voice that seemed a mix of northern European accents


    5. right, but the accents were wrong and there was


    6. Rather approach the "white mercenaries with harsh Afrikaans accents" who will treat you with respect and keep you safe


    7. …(that is to say) particularly striking to the casual observer is an inability to differentiate between generations whose phonic accents and (ethnic) customs and forms seem to suggest an unwillingness to integrate into the mainstream…


    8. Why? Because it is alien to me! Those high buildings and strange (to me) accents are scary


    9. They spoke English – it had become a faithfully followed rule, that they might overcome their Spanish accents – but when they made love: ah, that was an entirely different thing! The only language Truman could use to express those feelings was Spanish with a Nicaraguan accent rich in rolling ‘R’s’, that added emotion words alone were unable to capture


    10. The room was decorated fully in white, silver, and ashy gray, with accents of

    11. "Faith and Una Meredith stayed home from Sunday School this morning and CLEANED HOUSE," said Miss Cornelia, in accents of despair


    12. “While you were in here I asked your gal if the perps had accents


    13. “Have you had any customers with Russian accents tonight?”


    14. When the men went to bed drunk that night, Roland kept the village children entertained with imitations of their peacock’s strut and harsh accents


    15. Paul’s theme in this part of the presentation of his theses now accents the affects


    16. Vampires become extremely adept at accents; living for centuries does that to you


    17. As of now, I could speak five hundred different languages with their various dialects, and fake almost all the accents they were


    18. the past, as I had already stated, the convention was to use dumb phony accents


    19. and the Japanese accents are often confused (and the rule of thumb is so easy:


    20. our accents,” commented an Argentine sitting next to me on the plane headed for

    21. I tried to explain to him “that English doesn’t have accents


    22. told me an interesting story about Spanish accents and American interference


    23. at least one intel igent set of international accents


    24. add that the user doesn’t see the letters with accents on the screen


    25. They may speak with foreign accents or even foreign


    26. He wore a gleaming suit of golden armor, plate over mail, with white ceramic accents, and a white cape trimmed in gold embroidery


    27. Mark wore gleaming gold-plated plate-over-mail armor with white accents and a white cape, and GrimFang hung across his back, it’s scabbard newly-white


    28. The word reverberated through his mind, its accents as familiar to him as his own blood


    29. greenery, and accents, gather the stems together, wrap with floral tape and add ribbon


    30. The house was painted tri-color—two shades of green with plum accents

    31. be holding up, though the accents were somewhat awkward and required them to repeat


    32. The sounds of the traders would enthral him with their sharp Dublin accents shouting, selling their wares, “apples, oranges, pears and banana’s they would shrike


    33. They did however; find their English accents strange at first


    34. Matthew had expected that this aunt and cousins would have spoken with English accents but was surprised that his uncle also did


    35. “I see,” she said, without commitment, her accent the median of all accents


    36. When they emerged from the exit they could hear the strange accents of people coming and going


    37. recognized their accents as being Irish


    38. A great deal of them spoke with Irish accents


    39. explaining that the younger children would adapt to terms, sayings, and even accents over here, they being so young when they left


    40. The sound of familiar Irish accents by both staff and passengers at the airport brought a lump to his throat

    41. He was captivated by the rich West Country accents, the colloquial conversations and the general banter of the locals and enjoyed it immensely


    42. All the Irish faces and accents along the street intrigued Matthew


    43. Ellen had commented about the fact that apart from Matthew and their parents and Margaret, that the rest of them had English accents


    44. Joe who had heard them rehearse was amused at the stage Irish accents they adopted to sing Irish songs


    45. The funny thing was that they had grown up with English accents in their adopted country, something that would never change


    46. The arched door slammed on the hard accents of Salome, the stormy reverberations of Khumbanigash


    47. This one was addressing his chief in the harsh accents of the Wazuli which Yasmina could scarcely understand, though as part of her royal education she had been taught the languages of Iranistan and the kindred tongues of Ghulistan


    48. Although budgies are usually green, blue, or yellow, with black and white accents, there are really only two pigments in the feathers and skin of budgies: melanin, a pigment that causes dark colors such as black and brown; and a carotene layer that produces yellow (varying to red and orange)


    49. It was mostly a cool-grey coloured globe with dark-blue, metallic accents of the structures and machines that covered the whole of its surface


    50. It’s pleasantly busy and on hearing the different accents it becomes clear a lot of tourists are also present











































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    Synonyms for "accent"

    accent accent mark emphasis stress speech pattern dialect idiom accentuate emphasise emphasize punctuate importance significance highlight prominence inflection rhythm stroke cadence intonation intensify feature underline

    "accent" definitions

    distinctive manner of oral expression


    special importance or significance


    the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people


    the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)


    a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation


    to stress, single out as important


    put stress on; utter with an accent