homophones

Example Sentences

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In characteristic Midwest American English words such as cot and caught are pronounced as homophones.

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

This is a reckless assertion; it may be that among the languages unknown to me there are some that are as much hampered with homophones as we are.

From Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones by Bridges, Robert Seymour