homophones

Example Sentences

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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

In the pursuit of his studies he also found out the existence of homophones, that is, characters having the same sound; and that phonetics were mixed up in every inscription with ideographs and representations.

From Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics by King, James