homophones
Example Sentences
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From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
And I argue that even though he’s world-famous and globally acclaimed, he’s really underrated for the kind of sophisticated nuanced deployment of homophones, metonymy, simile, metaphor, braggadocio, allusion.
From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2019
Are you good at phrases that incorporate complicated Mandarin homophones?
From The Guardian • May 15, 2019
Kay and Kaye, thirty and thirty-one, are not related or married: their last names happen to be homophones.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 4, 2019
Science is a great maker of homophones, without respect for the poets.
From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
