homophones
Example Sentences
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Here are some common homophones and their meanings:
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 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
Kay and Kaye, thirty and thirty-one, are not related or married: their last names happen to be homophones.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 4, 2019
And we are so accustomed to homophones in English that they do not much offend us; we do not imagine their non-existence, and most people are probably unaware of their inconvenience.
From Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones by Robert Seymour Bridges
