Tonified

"Tonified" in a Sentence (7 examples)

That tonified filly talkin' to me like that. She oughter be took down a peg or two.

You can imagine no set of people more polished, powdered, tonified and Englified, than they are.

"A d—d highfalutin, tonified cuss he is," said Backus as soon as the prospector was out of earshot.

Walking the tonified halls of Corrigan, Inc. made her feel like she was wearing a neon-orange sash across her chest that read "Trailer Park Queen – Doesn't Belong."

The accentual nature of H tones was said to be captured by this formal property not obtaining in “pure tone” languages with completely tonified underlying forms.

In fact, the claim is inherent in the H vs. ∅ underlying system that only languages that have this kind of opposition (as opposed to completely tonified underlying forms) will have globality.

The existence of such processes requires that Djuka be regarded as an incompletely tonified language with underlyingly specified H-tones.

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