diphthong

Example Sentences

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Leave it to Cher to rock a diphthong.

From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2019

These lines, for example, seem to evoke a police raid on a Vampire Weekend karaoke contest:  Duke seizes Florence & the diphthong town, Quite a surprise to young fops & leeches.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2012

For the rest of his life, Russell wrote under that diphthong.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here is the hectoring muse of the theater, certain of every wink and diphthong.

From Time Magazine Archive

If only the first element of a long vowel or diphthong is marked the tone is falling from high, and if only the last element is marked the tone is rising from low.

From Little Man's Family pre-primer by Enochs, J. B.