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How to use accented in a sentence

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He put a basket of warm breadsticks on the table, and he began to speak in a heavily accented voice.
Dark hair and even darker eyes accented his pale features and an amused smile touched his thin lips.
His English was heavily accented and not easy to understand, but still we spent the most wonderful hour discussing his work.
A lilting, deeply accented voice spoke quietly, yet it cut right through the buzz of conversation around them.
While she still speaks an accented Hindi, she is more confident in her speeches and is not shy of meeting the media.
He began to speak in a deeply accented, yet flawless English, and the last bits of conversation died from the room.
A slight woman of 37, she trembles and tears fill her eyes as she speaks in accented English about the end of her family's life in America.
I lifted my head, surprised to hear someone speak English to me, even though it was heavily accented.
He also pays attention to the number of accented words in the original line and tends to preserve the same number in his translation.
It's not just the final syllable of the word that must rhyme, but everything from the final syllable back to the final accented syllable.
For example, words like kick and chick are more heavily accented than words like grins and sins.
The accent fallacy is a fallacy of ambiguity due to the different ways a word is emphasized or accented.
A rapid-fire speaker in heavily accented English, the passionate French chef is never still.
His slow, strongly accented speech, when he is speaking in English, adds to the woolly headed professor image.
The interior was decorated in tasteful earth tones and accented with silver lampshades, picture frames, and other simple decorations.
Here are tourists walking behind a local woman yelping accented German and holding a closed umbrella over her head as a sign to them.
The antepenult may be accented only if U is short and may receive only the acute.
Colours are combined with all shades of grey, ranging from silver to anthracite, accented with rose or fuchsia.
His wrinkles and laugh lines accented a face of solitude and sadness, and his old uniform was becoming tattered, its former blue colour fading.
Colours are orchestrated in dark tones, such as sable, olive and black accented with flashes of ultramarine.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The metrical accent or ictus was marked in ancient notation by points placed over the accented syllable.
Never should it be said that Antonia Dennant had accented him and thrown him over.
Japanese is a syllabic language like our own, but, unlike our own, it is not accented.
For purposes of assonance little use is made of words accented on a syllable preceding the antepenult.
These words, as the reader will observe, are accented either on the first syllable or the penultima.
In versions of this book that do not support accented letters, Canon is spelled Canyon.
The foot that consists of two syllables, the first of which is accented, is called a trochee.
Letters that are accented in the lower case are typically not accented in the upper case.
All of these unaccented syllables are reckoned together as one thesis, as against the accented syllable or arsis.
In all of them words are generally accented on the first syllable, except when a possessive pronoun is prefixed.
At first he repeated some well-known prayers, and only accented a word here and there.
When the last syllable has a short vowel, such a penult, if accented, takes the circumflex.
It was based upon racial differences, but had been accented when Mr. Schwartzmeister put in a pool table.
The Goidelic dialects have preserved the vowels of accented syllables on the whole better than Brythonic.
She accented papa and mamma on the last syllable and leaned forward and looked upward like a shirtwaist Madonna.
Every hemistich consists of two feet or measures, each containing an accented syllable.
Beyond this it is necessary that the syllables, to form a full and perfect rhyme, should be accented syllables.
The foot consisting of an unaccented followed by an accented syllable is called an iambus.
The appoggiatura is always accented, but the acciaccatura never is, the stress always falling on the melody tone.
Lena moved without exertion, rather indolently, and her hand often accented the rhythm softly on her partner's shoulder.
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