fricative
Example Sentences
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Gibson pauses before the last word to let a slow fricative sound emanate from his lips — fff — like air escaping from a punctured tire, or a man suppressing a naughty word.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2016
That’s the voiceless velar fricative, and it adds a wonderful percussiveness to “99 Luftbalons.”
From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2012
Clinton made it through the speech, but just barely, his voice catching on every fricative by the end.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus the Latin vowels were named by simply uttering their sounds; the mute consonants and h by uttering a vowel after them, and the so-called nasal and fricative consonants by uttering a vowel before them.
From Latin Pronunciation A Short Exposition of the Roman Method by Harry Thurston Peck
In the South palatal c became a fricative ch.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
