Accent

In the word "careful", the accent is placed on the first syllable.

At this hotel, the accent is on luxury.

The name Cézanne is written with an acute accent.

California, like several other states, prohibits the use of diacritical marks or accents on official documents. That means no tilde (~), no accent grave (`), no umlaut (¨) and certainly no cedilla (¸).

I know, sir, I am no flatterer: he that beguiled you in a plain accent was a plain knave; which for my part I will not be, though I should win your displeasure to entreat me to 't.

The tender Accent of a Woman's Cry / Will pass unheard, will unregarded die;

And he repeated her words with such assurance of accent, such boastful pretence of amazement, that she could not help replying with quickness …

Edmund White, John Mitzel, and David Goodstein, among others, have taken pains to distinguish two kinds of "liberation" envisioned by the members of our recently emerged movement: assimilation into the body politic — or a total restructuring of the sex-role system. The second path amounts to revolutionary subversion, but we hear little about it here, except in the accents of reproach: to the idea that gay people might be "pioneers in the area of relationship" and that "our greatest offering to civilization is the beauty of sexual freedom," McNaught responds: "Bunk!"

a foreign accent

a broad Irish accent

a hint of a German accent

a thick French accent

My professor's accent is so thick that it's difficult to understand her lectures.

She spoke with a strong accent that betrayed her southern roots.

I was surprised to learn that he was an immigrant, as he spoke without any accent.

They were all Middle Eastern types but spoke French without any accent.

Growing up in the Rhondda and having a strong accent was never a problem for me and my voice never really stood out from the crowd.

It's really hard to get in an audition room when you have an accent. Rather than being treated as the other people, you are falling into a category of foreigners who can't really maintain the role.

Why go to the effort of writing in a character with an Indian name played by an Indian actor whose main personality trait is that he is stupid and has an accent?

But over the years, even after perfecting "accent-less" English, graduating from college, getting a job at Goldman Sachs, and becoming an American citizen, Arce still felt like she didn't belong.

I believe I still retain some of my hearing accent when I use American Sign Language.

Cheesesteaks, Peanut Chews, Tastykakes, oh yeah, the Liberty Bell — there's so much to love about Philadelphia, but one of the best things about the city of Brotherly Love is the accent. We're not talking about spoken English — we're talking about American Sign Language.

I heard my landlady's accents attuned to nervous civility, mingling with the mellow tones of a deep masculine voice,

Winds! on your wings to Heaven her accents bear, / Such words as Heaven alone is fit to hear.

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