plosive
Example Sentences
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In “A Note on the Word ‘Gubernatorial,’” which Davis contributed to the Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus, she enjoys the word’s sound, “incorporating two voiced plosives and the word ‘goober.’”
From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2019
“Our guys did a very good job today,” he said in his thick Afrikaans pronunciation, all plosives and alveolar trills.
From The Guardian • Nov. 13, 2018
There’s something about the sound of it that is sonically shocking — the juxtaposition of two harsh plosives in a string of so few letters.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2018
Good Morning Heartache is mangled and mesmerising; Strange Fruit is delivered with sibilants and plosives laden with disgust.
From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2012
Even among my colleagues, all of whom pronounce mignon correctly, your instructions caused a considerable phonetic tangle, not to mention knots of rather nasty plosives and fricatives.
From Time Magazine Archive
