fricative

Example Sentences

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Gibson pauses before the last word to let a slow fricative sound emanate from his lips — fff — like air escaping from a punctured tire, or a man suppressing a naughty word.

From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2016

That’s the voiceless velar fricative, and it adds a wonderful percussiveness to “99 Luftbalons.”

From Slate • Nov. 8, 2012

Clinton made it through the speech, but just barely, his voice catching on every fricative by the end.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the South palatal c became a fricative ch.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias

Thus the Latin vowels were named by simply uttering their sounds; the mute consonants and h by uttering a vowel after them, and the so-called nasal and fricative consonants by uttering a vowel before them.

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