homophones
Example Sentences
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Students in the small, remote community of Estancia, N.M., were enthusiastically engaged in a vocabulary lesson, enunciating words with a “bossy r,” as well as homophones and homonyms, and spelling them on white boards.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2022
For more information about homophones, see Words and Language.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 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
But this is beyond the present purpose, which is merely to exhibit the tendency which this so-called degradation has to create homophones.
From Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones by Robert Seymour Bridges
