homophones
Example Sentences
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Students in the small, remote community of Estancia, N.M., were enthusiastically engaged in a vocabulary lesson, enunciating words with a “bossy r,” as well as homophones and homonyms, and spelling them on white boards.
From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2022
In characteristic Midwest American English words such as cot and caught are pronounced as homophones.
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
Such hieroglyphs are called homophones, and they are sometimes very numerous; for instance, as many as twenty hieroglyphs had each the value of a, and h was represented by at least thirty homophones.
From Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics by King, James
