fricative
Example Sentences
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Dairy products and other soft foods, such as gruel, porridge, soup and stews, helped shape our faces, the researchers claim, and allowed us to form the sounds “f” and “v”, known as labiodental fricatives.
From The Guardian • Mar. 14, 2019
But there’s Bradley Cooper, nailing his uvular fricatives on the evening news.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016
In his search for just the right sounds, Shore used an app, called Universal Text Combination Generator, to create a list of 7,500 names combining fricatives and stops.
From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2015
There were many similar discoveries among fricatives and plosives, leading Leben to conclude that “the physical characteristics of sound are what determine associations.”
From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2015
Laleh grew up with the ear for it—the uvular fricatives and alveolar trills that I could never get quite right.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
