diphthong

Example Sentences

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Leave it to Cher to rock a diphthong.

From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2019

These lines, for example, seem to evoke a police raid on a Vampire Weekend karaoke contest:  Duke seizes Florence & the diphthong town, Quite a surprise to young fops & leeches.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2012

Here is the hectoring muse of the theater, certain of every wink and diphthong.

From Time Magazine Archive

Housman's judgment of that ambitious pagan could be superimposed on the Mailer of Pieces and Pontifications without changing a diphthong: his "besetting sin is the use of words too forcible for his thoughts."

From Time Magazine Archive

In uttering a proper diphthong both vowels are pronounced; the sound is not simple, but the two sounds are so blended as to be considered as forming one syllable, as in void, bough.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various