homophones
Example Sentences
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Here are some common homophones and their meanings:
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
When the principal calls her Melanie, Wang’s heroine adopts three of her Mandarin name’s homophones: Mist, who can be invisible; Basket, carrier of her parents’ dreams; and Blue, her truest self.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2021
And I argue that even though he’s world-famous and globally acclaimed, he’s really underrated for the kind of sophisticated nuanced deployment of homophones, metonymy, simile, metaphor, braggadocio, allusion.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2019
Are you good at phrases that incorporate complicated Mandarin homophones?
From The Guardian ● May 15, 2019
Such hieroglyphs are called homophones, and they are sometimes very numerous; for instance, as many as twenty hieroglyphs had each the value of a, and h was represented by at least thirty homophones.
From Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics by James King
