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Example sentences for "aspirates"

Lexicographically close words:
aspin; aspirant; aspirants; aspirate; aspirated; aspirating; aspiration; aspirations; aspirator; aspire
  1. Let us remark in this connection that there are no aspirates pronounced in Hispaniola, as amongst the Latin peoples.

  2. I know that the Jews and the Arabs pronounce their aspirates in the same way, and the Spaniards do likewise with words they have taken from the Arabs who were for a long time their masters.

  3. After all, he used just as many aspirates as anyone else, only that he used them in rather different places: that was all.

  4. At times of excitement his aspirates used to fly.

  5. Pronounce these words forcibly and distinctly several times in succession; then drop the other sounds, and repeat the subvocals and aspirates alone.

  6. Aspirates consist of breath only, modified by the vocal organs.

  7. The following subvocals and aspirates have no cognates.

  8. Pronounce distinctly and forcibly, several times in succession, words in which these sounds occur as elements; then drop the other sounds, and repeat the subvocals and aspirates alone.

  9. Take all the consonants, and classify them in two columns, the aspirates or breath sounds in one column, and the sub-vocals in another.

  10. In the sanctity of the little shop in Birmingham where Sir John had first laid the foundations of his fortune, aspirates could drop unheeded.

  11. Except that in the kitchen her lost aspirates would probably have been handed back to her on a salver, whereas in the drawing-room they were ground into the carpet.

  12. Dionysius’ various statements as to the aspirates are discussed in E.

  13. It therefore abstains from recommending any change in the common pronunciation of the aspirates except in the case of χ.

  14. In our own German the aspirates were originally far more numerous than they are at present.

  15. And it even happens with some, as with the French, for instance, that the aspirates cease to be articulated, even though they are still marked.

  16. Now, while the aspirates form the spiritual element in the whole system of elementary sounds, in the vowels, on the other hand, predominates the soul-full voice of song.

  17. In the various alphabetical systems the aspirates stand out most individually.

  18. In the seclusion of Balmoral, neither of them thought it necessary to be very particular about the aspirates which they emphasised so carefully elsewhere.

  19. The Phoenician alphabet possessed many more aspirates than were required in Greek, which tended more and more to drop all its aspirates.

  20. All the so-called aspirates are continuous; and, with the exception of s and z, all the lenes are explosive.

  21. How the so-called aspirates differ from their corresponding lenes has not yet been determined.

  22. Now in certain languages the true aspirates are of common occurrence, i.

  23. But true aspirates are rare in the English language.

  24. All the so-called aspirates are continuous; and, with the exception of s and z, all the lenes are explosive.

  25. This is equally true whatever was the precise nature of the sound which at that period the Greek aspirates had reached in their secular process of change from pure aspirates (as in Eng.

  26. By this time also y and z were introduced, and the representation of the Greek aspirates by th, ph, ch, so that words newly borrowed from the Greek could be more faithfully reproduced.

  27. He was a stout man, of a vinous complexion, with what I should call here, where our speech is mostly uncouth, an educated accent, though with few and wandering aspirates in it.

  28. Some preachers were nonconformist, but there was one perspiring Anglican priest who labored earnestly with his hearers, and who had more of his aspirates in the right place.

  29. The subvocals are sometimes called voice consonants and the aspirates breath consonants.

  30. I was an undergraduate in those days, and even if somebody had caught me walking with a young lady of unknown antecedents and doubtful aspirates on the East Cliff at Hastings, it really wouldn't have much mattered.

  31. In the Kosekin we have the corresponding aspirates F, Ch, Th.

  32. Next we have in the Hebrew the aspirates F, Ch, Dh.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aspirates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.