fricative
Example Sentences
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Gibson pauses before the last word to let a slow fricative sound emanate from his lips — fff — like air escaping from a punctured tire, or a man suppressing a naughty word.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2016
That’s the voiceless velar fricative, and it adds a wonderful percussiveness to “99 Luftbalons.”
From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2012
Clinton made it through the speech, but just barely, his voice catching on every fricative by the end.
From Time Magazine Archive
Spirant, spī′rant, n. a consonant which is fricative or continuable—opp. to explosive, esp. v and f, th, dh; by others made to include the sibilants, and the semi-vowels w and y.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Thus the Latin vowels were named by simply uttering their sounds; the mute consonants and h by uttering a vowel after them, and the so-called nasal and fricative consonants by uttering a vowel before them.
From Latin Pronunciation A Short Exposition of the Roman Method by Harry Thurston Peck
