enunciate
Example Sentences
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He doesn't think screen acting has changed much over the decades but he does have a grumble about "mumbling" - actors who fail to enunciate their lines.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2023
As with “queer,” she’s out to enunciate all the meanings and manifestations of “freedom” that our current conversation obscures.
From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2021
“The way certain singers enunciate clearly, so that every word is heard, Rice played with a deep technical command, so that no note was ever lost.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 2020
“The older I got, I was like, ‘Let me go ahead and enunciate this whole word so that people know what I’m saying,’” Megan explains.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2020
In spite of Mr. Gatti’s reminders that I should speak slowly and enunciate every word, even if I didn’t understand it, I recited my three-minute monologue in one minute flat.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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