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How to use accent in a sentence

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The rhythms of both Greek and Latin poetry are based on the quantitative length of syllables, not on stress accent as are English rhythms.
He'd heard my accent and decided there was no point giving me the time of day.
While he often raged against the race, Byron was a Scot at heart and retained a strong Aberdonian accent throughout his life.
When Gwenyth Paltrow perfected a flawless English accent to accompany her brilliant acting in Emma, eyes turned and casting began with absquatulation.
Of course, in her Neverland they bleach your teeth so white they glow and Madonna coaches you on your convincing British accent.
With an Eastern European accent he spoke Arabic, and I noticed his camouflage Army pants were a Russian pattern.
He seems miffed that Liv Ullmann would go off and do a musical when he was thinking of putting her, accent and all, in his movie.
Here we see an au naturel Moore, bra-less in faded rock T-shirts and vowel-mangling California accent.
Or Mr. carmine, a Yonkers toupee-maker with a thick Italian accent and a full head of gray hair.
I struck up a conversation with a man in his fifties or sixties who had a Brooklyn accent.
Is there more to playing a specifically American character than altering your accent?
The sketch was really a vehicle for Cecily Strong's hysterical, over-the-top Venezuelan accent.
But the people from Valley Stream had such a thick New York accent that was all around me.
Without warning, he reenacts a love scene from the beginning of the movie, using Puss's Castilian Spanish accent, and cracks up.
If a fan has a Spanish or Japanese accent, George will switch languages to accommodate them.
Stephenson, having come from the North, spoke with a broad Northumberland accent and not the 'Language of Parliament,' which made him seem lowly.
Exceptions to those rules are indicated by an acute accent mark over the vowel of the stressed syllable.
Exceptions to this rule are indicated by placing an acute accent on the stressed vowel.
A European charm of manner and a slight Scandinavian accent completed his front. No one could have looked less like a lush-roller.
That's quite an achievement, I think, for someone inside the M25 to travel north, especially someone with such a plummy accent.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The voice was not familiar, but the accent was Aquilonian of the Central Provinces.
He was a silent, precise man with a dour nature and a hard aberdonian accent.
How would the first accent of his iron tongue have startled his resurrectionists!
They'll stick a b next to a k and follow it up with a z and put an accent mark over the whole business and call it a word.
There are some less common characters with an underdot or an acute accent in this text.
Some, but by no means all, of 'ee' has the first 'e' marked with an acute accent.
On many of the transcriptions used in this book, an acute accent is used when an apostrophe would be expected by most readers.
The acute accent on vowels indicates a stressed syllable, which is also raised in pitch.
And with such histories the younger of the two sisters, in a very sweet Scottish accent, animated the whole way to alloa.
The costume of the alpinist, his spectacles, his accent, were quite enough to confound him in their minds with those agents.
A poetic foot of three syllables which bears the accent on the third syllable is called an anapestic foot.
The accent must fall on the penult, if it was long, otherwise on the antepenult of the word.
Words ending in ty have their accent on the antepenult, as pusillanmity, actvity.
On that place, if it be on the penultimate or antepenultimate, the accent should be laid in English.
She was Pakistani or Bangladeshi, with a faint accent, and very pretty even with the dark circles under her eyes.
Brenton laughed at the accent of the compliment which unmistakably was begrudged.
The man with the foreign accent was big, broad-shouldered, fair-haired and as smooth-shaven as any bullfighter.
This anie eare may if he accent the antepenult matrmonie, or the penult matrimnie, or the last as matrimone.
His accent, which was Kentuckian and therefore Southern, had helped him also.
The accent upon the pronoun was very faint, but it was there for him to notice if he liked.
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