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How to use consonant in a sentence

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This is true of nominatives of all nouns other than some third declension consonant stems.
Let's say you're in a language that uses schwa to break up consonant clusters, but nowhere else.
The average frequency was 7.5 per million for the vowel words and 7.9 per million for the consonant words.
Gay marriage is, obviously, completely consonant with liberal aspirations to make marriage something that everyone can aspire to.
He identified it as consonant with his team's research results on the nature of distress in close relationships.
Infant babbling, the stringing together of vowel and consonant sounds, is an important stage in the eventual development of language.
It's meant for specialists who can follow all the details about the vowel and consonant changes.
While the consonant cards each represent a single letter, the vowel cards give a choice of two vowels and the wild cards represent any letter.
In Chinese pronunciation, basic vowels can form vowel combinations with each other or with a nasal consonant.
And chords are groups of more or less consonant sounds which counterpoint has united!
English vowels may be partially nasalized when followed by a nasal consonant.
In the 6th century B.C. Pythagoras observed that simple ratios of lengths of strings determine consonant musical intervals.
The work began to display a tendency towards regular rhythmic pulse, consonant intervals and an impertinent use of the then forbidden octave.
Participation in these gatherings is simply not consonant with the depression and contrition that the mourner experiences.
Moreover, derivation by prefixation of a single consonant would go against the general pattern of word formation in English.
In these dialects many words end in a consonant but they cannot be seen as an apocope of an Italian word.
His contribution to the study of errors in apical consonant articulation are world famous.
That seems to be a complete invention, as both the sound and the video seem to me to indicate that there is a final labial consonant.
The English consonant sounds and suprasegmentals also present difficulties for native speakers of Spanish.
In all other cases the vowel point is applied to the preceding consonant, and the letter representing the vowel remains without vowel point.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The acrobatics which he performed with that defenceless consonant were marvelous.
It was a lovely day, and every feeling of my heart was consonant to the scene.
Between the points of repose the combined sounds may or may not be consonant.
A digraph may either be a combination of two consonants or of two vowels or of a vowel and a consonant.
A consonant or digraph between two sounded vowels usually joins the following vowel, rea-son, no-ti-fy, mo-ther.
Adjectives having a short vowel and ending in a single consonant double this before the endings er and est.
This gives a major scale, with the Pythagorean third, consisting of two great steps, which was too sharp to be consonant.
Kluge accepts gutturalizing of a palatal c before a consonant where this position is the result of syncopation of a palatal vowel.
The teacher writes a phonogram on the board and below it all the consonant sounds from which words may be built.
I is a consonant when it represents the consonant y, as in alien.
If metre be superadded, all other parts must be made consonant with it.
The changes on the beginning are made by aspirating an initial consonant.
Even the man's start and suspicious stare as the priest went by were consonant enough with the vigilance and jealousy of such a type.
The part in the next line should, if possible, begin with a consonant.
The consonant is the distinguishing element of human speech.
I do not know how far the masting was consonant to his wishes.
They were consonant with early Roman mores which were warlike.
In the first and second the consonant is followed by a vowel.
In a rigorous and abstract sense, the consonant has no sound of its own.
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