BA

Example Sentences

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But in Taiwanese Mandarin, the second ba sounds stronger.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2023

But summer isn’t quite over yet, and I am still feeling the pull of the true dry soups like ba mii pu.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2021

Speech, the oral output of language, requires precise control over the lips, tongue and jaw to produce one of the basic speech subunits: the syllable, like "ba," "da," "ma."

From Salon • Aug. 28, 2021

They dribbled it with blood-red paint and etched the Creole words “Respe ba Matinik. Respe ba 22 Me.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2021

“I still feel terrible about coaxing your ba to go to your premiere when I knew he’d hate it. I heard him yelling at you the next day. Is that why you’re moving out?”

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu