Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for consonant. Search instead for consonanta.
Definitions

consonant

[kon-suh-nuhnt] / ˈkɒn sə nənt /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

And the “Laudamus Te,” with its insistent back-and-forth reiteration of the simplest consonant harmonies, sounds like a prefiguration of Virgil Thomson’s “Four Saints in Three Acts.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

Now he seems to regret it—though he still hasn’t apologized directly or acknowledged that he was wrong, and is pretending that what he said earlier is consonant with what he’s saying now.

From Slate ● Dec. 30, 2025

These consonant clusters comprise multiple letters when written out in the Roman alphabet, but are one letter in the Yautja alphabet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025

In the Gluck rehearsal, Palumbo cautioned the group not to sit on one word’s final vowel, so that the next consonant could be more explosive.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2024

But what if the h sounds like a vowel or the u sounds like a consonant?

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

I had more trouble with voiceless consonants than voiced ones—one of the sample sentences for this type of SD reduced my voice to a whisper on nearly every syllable.

From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026

To create an otherworldly voice, Elordi studied Tibetan throat singing and incorporated the slurred consonants caused by dentures he’d been given for the role.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025

They were prone to making simple mistakes, including basic addition errors and mistaking consonants for vowels, which led them to provide incorrect answers.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2024

These cards set the players challenges such as "play a word containing at least three different consonants".

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2024

He said, “All right,” in all vowels, no consonants.

From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia




Vocabulary lists containing consonant


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training