diphthong

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Leave it to Cher to rock a diphthong.

From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2019

These lines, for example, seem to evoke a police raid on a Vampire Weekend karaoke contest:  Duke seizes Florence & the diphthong town, Quite a surprise to young fops & leeches.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2012

There is Noel Coward, every precious diphthong faultlessly mimicked by Daniel Massey �with only the barest dash of the saline wit that has kept him quoted for almost 50 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here is the hectoring muse of the theater, certain of every wink and diphthong.

From Time Magazine Archive

That is, in pronouncing a diphthong the sound of each of its elements was distinctly heard, though pronounced in the time of one syllable.

From Latin Pronunciation A Short Exposition of the Roman Method by Peck, Harry Thurston