enunciatein a sentencegrouped by contextual meaning
enunciate as in: enunciate while speaking
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They had lost the ability to enunciate words but could still mimic a range of human vocal sounds, from a child's high-pitched warble to a man's deep tones.
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enunciate = say words in such a way that they can be understood
enunciate as in: enunciate the plan
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"Prejudice," she enunciated carefully.
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enunciated = said
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- RADIO MAN Excuse me, Mr.—uh, Colonel Brady; would you ...uh ...point more in the direction of the enunciator.† (source)
- As Clennam had a purpose in remaining, he said what he could responsive to these sentiments, and stood at the window with their enunciator, while Maggy and her Little Mother washed the tea-service and cleared it away.† (source)
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- "Every sinner must be punished in a manner befitting his sin!" the cleric repeated into the mike, lowering his voice, enunciating each word slowly, dramatically.† (source)
- Then I cleared my throat and said my log-in pass phrase, being careful to enunciate: "You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada."† (source)
- Ye spoke slowly, enunciating every word, as though afraid the child she was teaching had trouble, understanding.† (source)
- "But," he says, enunciating very slowly, "what about the collections that are not on public display?"† (source)
- And of course you shouldn't have trouble with any answer if you enunciate.† (source)
- "There was an anonymous tip that you stole a car," he enunciated slowly.† (source)
- Drunk," Alaska said slowly, as if enunciation required great effort.† (source)
- "It would appear," she said, carefully enunciating each word, "that you are in violation of the Interplanetary Agreement of 54 T.E., Article 17."† (source)
- Ya khochu chto-by Shirli prinyala eto, said Gyuri, a sentence so plain and so earnestly enunciated that even I, with my lousy Russki, understood it.† (source)
- Still enunciating her words loudly and clearly, she says, "It's not just stubborn, Lena.† (source)
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- Again I pronounce the numbers carefully, enunciating with precision.† (source)
- She used elaborate gestures and spoke very clearly, enunciating every word.† (source)
- He recognized the careful enunciation of letters by those, like himself, who could not read but had memorized the letters of their name.† (source)
- He enunciated every syllable, as if he were talking to someone mentally handicapped.† (source)
- Maybe he's from the Midwest or up near the Great Lakes, and he seems to have been told to always stand up straight, enunciate, carry himself with pride and respect others.† (source)
- He spoke in a measured Southern drawl, but with perfect enunciation.† (source)
- She enunciates each word carefully, as if it's a speech she has memorized.† (source)
- Bellamy enunciated his words with crisp precision.† (source)
- 'Not until I finish,' he said, trying to enunciate each word carefully.† (source)
- He spoke slowly, with careful and precise enunciation: "I do not take orders from a damn' Harkonnen spy.† (source)
- Whenever he felt weak, he'd take from under the couch the road map he bought at a gas station and trace his fingers up the coast, enunciating the city names slowly, trying to copy the awful crunch of sounds that was English.† (source)
- Next?" she repeated, enunciating each word.† (source)
- "Ah, NHCP," he said, enunciating each letter to show he was in with the lingo.† (source)
- The American trekker, unable to comprehend that this brownskinned woman of the hills was addressing him in perfectly enunciated King's English, continued to employ his comical pidgin argot: "Men-u. Good, good.† (source)
- He enunciated for me over and over, scintillas of dry spit flying toward my face.† (source)
- He enunciates the words carefully.† (source)
- Me," he enunciated carefully, and I knew what he was saying in that one word—that he realized Nyx found him worthy even though his parents didn't, and even though much of his life people had made fun of him because he liked guys.† (source)
- My sister can't enunciate words, but she uses verbal approximations.† (source)
- —and the punishment is death"; each time he came to the sentence, Tate enunciated it with a dark-toned hollowness that seemed to echo the train's mournful, now fading call.† (source)
- Enunciating precisely but soundlessly: "There's a white man at the door† (source)
- "Lunch ends at one," she said, enunciating each word carefully as if my tardiness was due to a basic lack of comprehension.† (source)
- Today, though, he enunciates the words with a measured clarity, like he's addressing an audience.† (source)
- "You know what I really need right now?" she said, enunciating each word clearly.† (source)
- That same question was being put even more searchingly to Johnnie by somebody else at the instant when Mandy enunciated it.† (source)
- He was careful to enunciate every syllable, every sound that was foreign to his own language, so as to avoid a potentially tragic mishap.† (source)
- St. Louis teachers, on the other hand, tended to act very siditty, and talked down to their students from the lofty heights of education and whitefolks' enunciation.† (source)
- But I'm really trying to enunciate clearly.† (source)
- Well, I guess ,I should have followed orders...Vilyak leaned forward and spoke, enunciating each word very carefully.† (source)
- I was supposed to clearly enunciate a yes or a no. What happened after that?† (source)
- "Thank you for spending your precious time in the far-flung region of northern Pakistan," one teenaged boy enunciated shyly into an amplified microphone attached to a tractor battery.† (source)
- "To the viewing party," she said, enunciating her syllables as one might do with a small child.† (source)
- It's real comfortable and it's easier to talk that way than it is to start enunciating everything perfectly.† (source)
- "Yes," the queen repeated after him, enunciating the word clearly.† (source)
- He enunciated each syllable as if we were hard of hearing.† (source)
- "The stones of the East Wing have been violated," she says, enunciating each word.† (source)
- The punishment against us was never enunciated as an official policy, but it was a renewal of the harsh atmosphere that prevailed upon our arrival on the island.† (source)
- Reading from the list he had written down in Flannagan's cabin, Jason spoke rapidly, enunciating clearly so that there would be no confusion on the tape.† (source)
- In gracefully enunciated Castillan Spanish, he said, "They told me Monterrey had the most beautiful girls in Mexico.† (source)
- Ryan sat back and spoke slowly, enunciating his words as if they contained the brittle truth.† (source)
- Then he realized that Charlie was asking him a question, enunciating the words carefully.† (source)
- "NAH-stee-ya," Margot enunciates, and I inwardly cringe, acutely aware of the audience around us.† (source)
- It imagined stirring speeches that knit the country together, then made sure that the words, when spoken, were uttered with exactly the right cadence, enunciation, and pitch.† (source)
- "There's not enough kudzu to cover it," she said, and then went on and on about the rudeness, the horrible nature of Mr. Beef Hucks, hesitating in order to give herself ample time for proper enunciation of the name.† (source)
- She enunciated the words carefully, as if he were hard of hearing.† (source)
- This elaboration was necessary because of the fact that solo-diving was against the rules, and also because of the safety precautions Barthelme had enunciated to me that first day ...True, they applied only inside the area and the ship lay outside it, but I did not care to explain where I was going either.† (source)
- I said half aloud, slowly enunciating the words while I lathered my crotch.† (source)
- Whenever I am going to lose control, whenever I am about to assume the emotional and psychological responses of the Peking man, my upper lip quivers reflexively and I find it very difficult to enunciate even the simplest of words.† (source)
- He enunciated Commonwealth very carefully.† (source)
- She speaks quiet, perfectly enunciated French; her accent is crisper than Frau Elena's.† (source)
- "There's a dead body outside this bar's front door," said Bat, enunciating carefully.† (source)
- "What," he said, enunciating each word carefully, "have you done, Meliorn?"† (source)
- "Booty Berry," she read slowly, enunciating each word.† (source)
- "All right," she said, enunciating each word with slow precision.† (source)
- Her tongue had thinned and the words rolled off well enunciated.† (source)
- "If you don't go after Luke," Clary said, enunciating very clearly, "I, personally, will kill you."† (source)
- This voice was deeper, and not slurring at all, each syllable enunciated perfectly.† (source)
- I enunciate every word in my most exasperated voice, but it doesn't deter him.† (source)
- Muzz had his face an inch from the mirror, enunciating slowly into the glass.† (source)
- "Do you know Miss Wren?" she said, enunciating loudly.† (source)
- "You answer me," demanded Miss Boon, enunciating each word with icy precision.† (source)
- Slowly, she enunciated the new words I was to repeat: laundromat, coin flakes, subway, snow.† (source)
- "Love," Yo enunciates, letting the full force of the word loose in her mouth.† (source)
- Enunciated and sharp like little claps of thunder.† (source)
- I couldn't hear what she was saying but I could tell that she was speaking more slowly than before, enunciating well, and I pictured her leaning forward, elbows on knees, making eye contact, not blinking.† (source)
- Arthur recited lyrics to me once on the company plane and together we laughed his wacko laugh, those enunciated ha-has, clear and slow and well spaced, like laughing with words.† (source)
- The laugh that is a little too loud; the enunciation a little too round; the gesture a little too generous.† (source)
- My father ladles out the stuffing, deals the slices of dark and light; my mother adds the mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce and asks Mr. Banerji, enunciating carefully, whether they have turkeys in his country.† (source)
- She took hold of the front of his shirt, leaned in closely, and said, enunciating each word clearly, "That wasn't you.† (source)
- You just knew, by the expression on her face, the steely narrowing of her eyes, the heavy, enunciated sighs that could be so belittling that words, any words, seemed preferable to them.† (source)
- I told Mr. de Klerk how impressed I was by his emphasis on reconciliation, enunciated in his inaugural address.† (source)
- "The other night," she repeated, enunciating the words, "when I came home and you were outside with someone.† (source)
- That I will do my best to improve American speech by avoiding loud, rough tones, by enunciating distinctly, and by speaking pleasantly, clearly, and sincerely.† (source)
- She made a lot of eye contact with the jurors, used hand gestures, and spent time enunciating key words or phrases she wanted them to note and remember.† (source)
- I told them that all of us were well, and explained that we were still opposed to an appeal for all the reasons we had previously enunciated, including the fact that we did not want our appeal to interfere with the cases of other ANC defendants.† (source)
- "Garcia de la Torre," Laura would enunciate carefully, giving her maiden as well as married name when they first arrived.† (source)
- Nathan's stilted, didactic enunciation might have been, under different circumstances, vaguely comical—a burlesque of itself—but now was edged with such real threat, rage and obdurate conviction that I could not help but give a small shiver and feel at my back the approach, like the thudding of gallows-bound footsteps, of some awful and unnamed doom.† (source)
- This he would do in a nervous voice, slowly intoning the lines from Whitman and Poe and Frost and others in hoarse, unmusical but clearly enunciated syllables, while she listened with great care; touched often and deeply by this poetry which from time to time brought exciting new nuances of meaning to the language, and by Mr. Youngstein's clumsy and groping passion for her, expressed in faun-gazes of yearning from behind his monstrous prismlike spectacles.† (source)
- Mallinson enunciated the proposition a shade nervously; but Barnard, the American, chose to be heavily facetious.† (source)
- A slight paralysis had slowed her tongue and thickened her speech a little, so that she spoke deliberately, with a ponderous enunciation of each word.† (source)
- 'Never go home the same way as you went out,' she said, as though enunciating an important general principle.† (source)
- Keeping vigil throughout that gale-tormented night, he faced facts nonetheless frankly because he did not trouble to enunciate them to the others.† (source)
- "I have no experience of this profound desire to which you allude," enunciated Tibby.† (source)
- He enunciated the word and then drank gravely.† (source)
- "Yes, I am satisfied, marquis, I am satisfied," said Newman, with his protracted enunciation.† (source)
- The enunciation of the veteran warrior had been calm, but distinct, and decided.† (source)
- It seemed worth putting down among the noblest sentiments enunciated by the best of men.† (source)
- "Quite well," he enunciated; and, with a bow, he left the gate.† (source)
- We have just enunciated it; the permanent life of the peoples.† (source)
- He bore himself with a certain grace, complimented little children and spoke with a neat enunciation.† (source)
- Mrs. Trenor had absented herself from the feast, perhaps for the reason so frankly enunciated by her husband, perhaps because, as Mrs. Fisher somewhat differently put it, she "couldn't bear new people when she hadn't discovered them herself."† (source)
- With features strained hard to enunciate the syllables they continued to regard the centre of the flickering fire, the notes of the youngest straying over into the pauses of the rest.† (source)
- "It is always terrible when the promise of months is destroyed in a moment," enunciated Miss Bartlett.† (source)
- "Yes, I—" He had difficulty with his enunciation, but he thumped his breast significantly and smiled.† (source)
- Maternally, "I think it's extremely nice of you to want to be trained in—in enunciation by a stage-director.† (source)
- In exquisite, perfectly enunciated words, he deplored the cold and damp, which were a bitter affliction for him.† (source)
- Taking off his spectacles, as was his habit before enunciating a general truth, he looked into them sadly, and remarked that the darker races are physically attracted by the fairer, but not vice versa—not a matter for bitterness this, not a matter for abuse, but just a fact which any scientific observer will confirm.† (source)
- He spoke simply, and utterly without emotion; with the manner of a teacher setting forth to a group of scholars an axiom in geometry, he would enunciate such propositions as made the hair of an ordinary person rise on end.† (source)
- The Frenchman left them for friends at another table, and Cronshaw, with the lazy enunciation which was one of his peculiarities, began to discourse on the relative merits of Kent and Lancashire.† (source)
- Her cheeks were red with anger, and when she answered her voice had the hard commonness which she concealed generally by a genteel enunciation.† (source)
- Mrs. Garth delivered this awful sentence with much majesty of enunciation, and Letty felt that between repressed volubility and general disesteem, that of the Romans inclusive, life was already a painful affair.† (source)
- A calm, subdued triumph, blent with a longing earnestness, marked his enunciation of the last glorious verses of that chapter.† (source)
- Yegor listened attentively, and obviously quite took in Levin's idea, but by way of assent to it he enunciated, greatly to Levin's surprise, the observation that when he had lived with good masters he had always been satisfied with his masters, and now was perfectly satisfied with his employer, though he was a Frenchman.† (source)
- Thus, in order to enunciate here only summarily, a law which it would require volumes to develop: in the high Orient, the cradle of primitive times, after Hindoo architecture came Phoenician architecture, that opulent mother of Arabian architecture; in antiquity, after Egyptian architecture, of which Etruscan style and cyclopean monuments are but one variety, came Greek architecture (of which the Roman style is only a continuation), surcharged with the Carthaginian dome; in modern times, after Romanesque architecture came Gothic architecture.† (source)
- He had vowed TO BE WITH ME ON MY WEDDING-NIGHT, yet he did not consider that threat as binding him to peace in the meantime, for as if to show me that he was not yet satiated with blood, he had murdered Clerval immediately after the enunciation of his threats.† (source)
- Tom, as you have observed, was never an exception among boys for ease of address; but the difficulty of enunciating a monosyllable in reply to Mr. or Mrs. Stelling was so great, that he even dreaded to be asked at table whether he would have more pudding.† (source)
- This unexpected resistance gave Magua time to interpose, and with rapid enunciation and animated gesture, he drew the attention of the band again to himself.† (source)
- His manner at these moments was frigid and abstract; his eyes were vacant in expression; while his voice, usually a rich tenor, rose into a treble which would have sounded petulantly but for the deliberateness and entire distinctness of the enunciation.† (source)
- There was in the enunciation of these words, thus repeated, an accent between an exclamation and an interrogation point.† (source)
- His voice varied rapidly from a tremulous indecision (when the animal spirits seemed utterly in abeyance) to that species of energetic concision—that abrupt, weighty, unhurried, and hollow-sounding enunciation—that leaden, self-balanced and perfectly modulated guttural utterance, which may be observed in the lost drunkard, or the irreclaimable eater of opium, during the periods of his most intense excitement.† (source)
- From the standpoint from which the science of history now regards its subject on the path it now follows, seeking the causes of events in man's freewill, a scientific enunciation of those laws is impossible, for however man's free will may be restricted, as soon as we recognize it as a force not subject to law, the existence of law becomes impossible.† (source)
- This is so even now, of course, strictly speaking, but it is not clearly enunciated, and very, very often the criminal of to-day compromises with his conscience: 'I steal,' he says, 'but I don't go against the Church.† (source)
- "Danged if ye bain't altered now, malter," said a voice with the vigour natural to the enunciation of a remarkably evident truism.† (source)
- Yeobright had enunciated the word "her" with a fervour which, in conversation with a mother, was absurdly indiscreet.† (source)
- Having exhibited himself in the new light of enunciating this tremendous threat, Mr Pancks, with a countenance of grave import, snorted several times and steamed away.† (source)
- But the murmurs grew louder and more general, and there were threatening symptoms that the council would dissolve itself in confusion; and he arose and resumed his speech, by changing his manner to the fierce and hurried enunciation of a warrior bent on revenge.† (source)
- The round eyes, eager gaze, the piping voice which enunciated the words, had operated like stilettos on his brain.† (source)
- When Newton enunciated the law of gravity he did not say that the sun or the earth had a property of attraction; he said that all bodies from the largest to the smallest have the property of attracting one another, that is, leaving aside the question of the cause of the movement of the bodies, he expressed the property common to all bodies from the infinitely large to the infinitely small.† (source)
- Your too animated conversation this evening with Count Vronsky" (he enunciated the name firmly and with deliberate emphasis) "attracted attention."† (source)
- It is often flung out as a sort of prop to support a decaying conviction which, whilst strong, required no enunciation to prove it so.† (source)
- "Ah!" he went on, with a long-drawn guttural enunciation, taking out his snuff-box, the only luxury he had left himself, and tapping it with something of his old air of defiance.† (source)
- "I think it is an occasion that we shall none of us forget," said the marquise, with her pure, neat enunciation.† (source)
- Lydgate waited a little, but Bulstrode only bowed, looking at him fixedly, and he went on with the same interrupted enunciation—as if he were biting an objectional leek.† (source)
- He replied, gazing to the very bottom of Thenardier's eyes the while, and enunciating every syllable distinctly:— "You are go-ing to take back Co-sette?† (source)
- Mrs Bangham, expert in sudden device, with one hand fanned the patient with a cabbage leaf, and with the other set traps of vinegar and sugar in gallipots; at the same time enunciating sentiments of an encouraging and congratulatory nature, adapted to the occasion.† (source)
- A piece can sometimes be divined on the enunciation of the personages; in the same manner a band can almost be judged from the list of ruffians composing it.† (source)
- Gregor answered to both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting long pauses between each, individual word.† (source)
- Though the Englishman retains the long form of the last syllable in writing, he reduces it in speaking to a thick triple consonant, /grm/; the American enunciates it clearly, rhyming it with /damn/.† (source)
- /Ordinary/, like /extraordinary/, is commonly enunciated clearly, but it has bred a degenerated form, /onry/ or /onery/, differentiated in meaning.† (source)
- [46] I have often noted that Americans, in speaking of the familiar /Worcestershire/ sauce, commonly pronounce every syllable and enunciated /shire/ distinctly† (source)
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