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
Here are some common homophones and their meanings:
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
In talking with friends the common plea that I have heard for homophones is their usefulness to the punster.
From Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones by Bridges, Robert Seymour
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
