toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

enunciate
in a sentence
grouped by contextual meaning


show 10 more with this conextual meaning
  • "Every sinner must be punished in a manner befitting his sin!" the cleric repeated into the mike, lowering his voice, enunciating each word slowly, dramatically.†   (source)
  • Ye spoke slowly, enunciating every word, as though afraid the child she was teaching had trouble, understanding.†   (source)
  • Then I cleared my throat and said my log-in pass phrase, being careful to enunciate: "You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada."†   (source)
  • She used elaborate gestures and spoke very clearly, enunciating every word.†   (source)
  • "But," he says, enunciating very slowly, "what about the collections that are not on public display?"†   (source)
  • "There was an anonymous tip that you stole a car," he enunciated slowly.†   (source)
  • Drunk," Alaska said slowly, as if enunciation required great effort.†   (source)
  • "It would appear," she said, carefully enunciating each word, "that you are in violation of the Interplanetary Agreement of 54 T.E., Article 17."†   (source)
  • Ya khochu chto-by Shirli prinyala eto, said Gyuri, a sentence so plain and so earnestly enunciated that even I, with my lousy Russki, understood it.†   (source)
  • The American trekker, unable to comprehend that this brownskinned woman of the hills was addressing him in perfectly enunciated King's English, continued to employ his comical pidgin argot: "Men-u. Good, good.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)
show 89 more with this conextual meaning
  • Still enunciating her words loudly and clearly, she says, "It's not just stubborn, Lena.†   (source)
  • He enunciated every syllable, as if he were talking to someone mentally handicapped.†   (source)
  • Again I pronounce the numbers carefully, enunciating with precision.†   (source)
  • He recognized the careful enunciation of letters by those, like himself, who could not read but had memorized the letters of their name.†   (source)
  • He enunciated for me over and over, scintillas of dry spit flying toward my face.†   (source)
  • Bellamy enunciated his words with crisp precision.†   (source)
  • She enunciates each word carefully, as if it's a speech she has memorized.†   (source)
  • "There's a dead body outside this bar's front door," said Bat, enunciating carefully.†   (source)
  • "To the viewing party," she said, enunciating her syllables as one might do with a small child.†   (source)
  • He spoke slowly, with careful and precise enunciation: "I do not take orders from a damn' Harkonnen spy.†   (source)
  • St. Louis teachers, on the other hand, tended to act very siditty, and talked down to their students from the lofty heights of education and whitefolks' enunciation.†   (source)
  • "Ah, NHCP," he said, enunciating each letter to show he was in with the lingo.†   (source)
  • Next?" she repeated, enunciating each word.†   (source)
  • -and the punishment is death"; each time he came to the sentence, Tate enunciated it with a dark-toned hollowness that seemed to echo the train's mournful, now fading call.†   (source)
  • The punishment against us was never enunciated as an official policy, but it was a renewal of the harsh atmosphere that prevailed upon our arrival on the island.†   (source)
  • Enunciating precisely but soundlessly: "There's a white man at the door!†   (source)
  • He enunciates the words carefully.†   (source)
  • Whenever he felt weak, he'd take from under the couch the road map he bought at a gas station and trace his fingers up the coast, enunciating the city names slowly, trying to copy the awful crunch of sounds that was English.†   (source)
  • "Lunch ends at one," she said, enunciating each word carefully as if my tardiness was due to a basic lack of comprehension.†   (source)
  • That same question was being put even more searchingly to Johnnie by somebody else at the instant when Mandy enunciated it.†   (source)
  • "Thank you for spending your precious time in the far-flung region of northern Pakistan," one teenaged boy enunciated shyly into an amplified microphone attached to a tractor battery.†   (source)
  • She enunciated the words carefully, as if he were hard of hearing.†   (source)
  • "NAH-stee-ya," Margot enunciates, and I inwardly cringe, acutely aware of the audience around us.†   (source)
  • She made a lot of eye contact with the jurors, used hand gestures, and spent time enunciating key words or phrases she wanted them to note and remember.†   (source)
  • Me," he enunciated carefully, and I knew what he was saying in that one word—that he realized Nyx found him worthy even though his parents didn't, and even though much of his life people had made fun of him because he liked guys.†   (source)
  • He spoke in a measured Southern drawl, but with perfect enunciation.†   (source)
  • Today, though, he enunciates the words with a measured clarity, like he's addressing an audience.†   (source)
  • He enunciated each syllable as if we were hard of hearing.†   (source)
  • In gracefully enunciated Castillan Spanish, he said, "They told me Monterrey had the most beautiful girls in Mexico.†   (source)
  • Ryan sat back and spoke slowly, enunciating his words as if they contained the brittle truth.†   (source)
  • Reading from the list he had written down in Flannagan's cabin, Jason spoke rapidly, enunciating clearly so that there would be no confusion on the tape.†   (source)
  • "Yes," the queen repeated after him, enunciating the word clearly.†   (source)
  • Then he realized that Charlie was asking him a question, enunciating the words carefully.†   (source)
  • It's real comfortable and it's easier to talk that way than it is to start enunciating everything perfectly.†   (source)
  • Well, I guess ,I should have followed orders… Vilyak leaned forward and spoke, enunciating each word very carefully.†   (source)
  • "The stones of the East Wing have been violated," she says, enunciating each word.†   (source)
  • It imagined stirring speeches that knit the country together, then made sure that the words, when spoken, were uttered with exactly the right cadence, enunciation, and pitch.†   (source)
  • "There's not enough kudzu to cover it," she said, and then went on and on about the rudeness, the horrible nature of Mr. Beef Hucks, hesitating in order to give herself ample time for proper enunciation of the name.†   (source)
  • I said half aloud, slowly enunciating the words while I lathered my crotch.†   (source)
  • This elaboration was necessary because of the fact that solo-diving was against the rules, and also because of the safety precautions Barthelme had enunciated to me that first day … True, they applied only inside the area and the ship lay outside it, but I did not care to explain where I was going either.†   (source)
  • RADIO MAN Excuse me, Mr.—uh, Colonel Brady; would you … uh … point more in the direction of the enunciator…?†   (source)
  • She speaks quiet, perfectly enunciated French; her accent is crisper than Frau Elena's.†   (source)
  • Enunciated and sharp like little claps of thunder.†   (source)
  • He enunciated Commonwealth very carefully.†   (source)
  • Her tongue had thinned and the words rolled off well enunciated.†   (source)
  • "All right," she said, enunciating each word with slow precision.†   (source)
  • "Booty Berry," she read slowly, enunciating each word.†   (source)
  • "You know what I really need right now?" she said, enunciating each word clearly.†   (source)
  • "What," he said, enunciating each word carefully, "have you done, Meliorn?"†   (source)
  • Muzz had his face an inch from the mirror, enunciating slowly into the glass.†   (source)
  • This voice was deeper, and not slurring at all, each syllable enunciated perfectly.†   (source)
  • "If you don't go after Luke," Clary said, enunciating very clearly, "I, personally, will kill you."†   (source)
  • "Do you know Miss Wren?" she said, enunciating loudly.†   (source)
  • Slowly, she enunciated the new words I was to repeat: laundromat, coin flakes, subway, snow.†   (source)
  • "You answer me," demanded Miss Boon, enunciating each word with icy precision.†   (source)
  • "Love," Yo enunciates, letting the full force of the word loose in her mouth.†   (source)
  • The laugh that is a little too loud; the enunciation a little too round; the gesture a little too generous.†   (source)
  • I couldn't hear what she was saying but I could tell that she was speaking more slowly than before, enunciating well, and I pictured her leaning forward, elbows on knees, making eye contact, not blinking.†   (source)
  • My father ladles out the stuffing, deals the slices of dark and light; my mother adds the mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce and asks Mr. Banerji, enunciating carefully, whether they have turkeys in his country.†   (source)
  • You just knew, by the expression on her face, the steely narrowing of her eyes, the heavy, enunciated sighs that could be so belittling that words, any words, seemed preferable to them.†   (source)
  • Arthur recited lyrics to me once on the company plane and together we laughed his wacko laugh, those enunciated ha-has, clear and slow and well spaced, like laughing with words.†   (source)
  • She took hold of the front of his shirt, leaned in closely, and said, enunciating each word clearly, "That wasn't you.†   (source)
  • I told Mr. de Klerk how impressed I was by his emphasis on reconciliation, enunciated in his inaugural address.†   (source)
  • That I will do my best to improve American speech by avoiding loud, rough tones, by enunciating distinctly, and by speaking pleasantly, clearly, and sincerely.†   (source)
  • "The other night," she repeated, enunciating the words, "when I came home and you were outside with someone.†   (source)
  • I told them that all of us were well, and explained that we were still opposed to an appeal for all the reasons we had previously enunciated, including the fact that we did not want our appeal to interfere with the cases of other ANC defendants.†   (source)
  • Nathan's stilted, didactic enunciation might have been, under different circumstances, vaguely comical—a burlesque of itself—but now was edged with such real threat, rage and obdurate conviction that I could not help but give a small shiver and feel at my back the approach, like the thudding of gallows-bound footsteps, of some awful and unnamed doom.†   (source)
  • This he would do in a nervous voice, slowly intoning the lines from Whitman and Poe and Frost and others in hoarse, unmusical but clearly enunciated syllables, while she listened with great care; touched often and deeply by this poetry which from time to time brought exciting new nuances of meaning to the language, and by Mr. Youngstein's clumsy and groping passion for her, expressed in faun-gazes of yearning from behind his monstrous prismlike spectacles.†   (source)
  • As Clennam had a purpose in remaining, he said what he could responsive to these sentiments, and stood at the window with their enunciator, while Maggy and her Little Mother washed the tea-service and cleared it away.†   (source)
  • Mallinson enunciated the proposition a shade nervously; but Barnard, the American, chose to be heavily facetious.†   (source)
  • A slight paralysis had slowed her tongue and thickened her speech a little, so that she spoke deliberately, with a ponderous enunciation of each word.†   (source)
  • 'Never go home the same way as you went out,' she said, as though enunciating an important general principle.†   (source)
  • "I have no experience of this profound desire to which you allude," enunciated Tibby.†   (source)
  • He had difficulty with his enunciation, but he thumped his breast significantly and smiled.†   (source)
  • He enunciated the word and then drank gravely.†   (source)
  • It seemed worth putting down among the noblest sentiments enunciated by the best of men.†   (source)
  • "Yes, I am satisfied, marquis, I am satisfied," said Newman, with his protracted enunciation.†   (source)
  • The enunciation of the veteran warrior had been calm, but distinct, and decided.†   (source)
  • "Quite well," he enunciated; and, with a bow, he left the gate.†   (source)
  • We have just enunciated it; the permanent life of the peoples.†   (source)
  • He bore himself with a certain grace, complimented little children and spoke with a neat enunciation.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Trenor had absented herself from the feast, perhaps for the reason so frankly enunciated by her husband, perhaps because, as Mrs. Fisher somewhat differently put it, she "couldn't bear new people when she hadn't discovered them herself."†   (source)
  • In exquisite, perfectly enunciated words, he deplored the cold and damp, which were a bitter affliction for him.†   (source)
  • Maternally, "I think it's extremely nice of you to want to be trained in—in enunciation by a stage-director.†   (source)
  • Taking off his spectacles, as was his habit before enunciating a general truth, he looked into them sadly, and remarked that the darker races are physically attracted by the fairer, but not _vice versa_—not a matter for bitterness this, not a matter for abuse, but just a fact which any scientific observer will confirm.†   (source)
  • "It is always terrible when the promise of months is destroyed in a moment," enunciated Miss Bartlett.†   (source)
  • The Frenchman left them for friends at another table, and Cronshaw, with the lazy enunciation which was one of his peculiarities, began to discourse on the relative merits of Kent and Lancashire.†   (source)
  • Her cheeks were red with anger, and when she answered her voice had the hard commonness which she concealed generally by a genteel enunciation.†   (source)
  • Garth delivered this awful sentence with much majesty of enunciation, and Letty felt that between repressed volubility and general disesteem, that of the Romans inclusive, life was already a painful affair.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)

show 10 more examples with any meaning
  • And of course you shouldn't have trouble with any answer if you enunciate.†   (source)
  • 'Not until I finish,' he said, trying to enunciate each word carefully.†   (source)
  • Maybe he's from the Midwest or up near the Great Lakes, and he seems to have been told to always stand up straight, enunciate, carry himself with pride and respect others.†   (source)
  • He was careful to enunciate every syllable, every sound that was foreign to his own language, so as to avoid a potentially tragic mishap.†   (source)
  • My sister can't enunciate words, but she uses verbal approximations.†   (source)
  • "Garcia de la Torre," Laura would enunciate carefully, giving her maiden as well as married name when they first arrived.†   (source)
  • I enunciate every word in my most exasperated voice, but it doesn't deter him.†   (source)
  • I was supposed to clearly enunciate a yes or a no. What happened after that?†   (source)
  • But I'm really trying to enunciate clearly.†   (source)
  • Whenever I am going to lose control, whenever I am about to assume the emotional and psychological responses of the Peking man, my upper lip quivers reflexively and I find it very difficult to enunciate even the simplest of words.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)
show 4 more examples with any meaning
  • Keeping vigil throughout that gale-tormented night, he faced facts nonetheless frankly because he did not trouble to enunciate them to the others.†   (source)
  • With features strained hard to enunciate the syllables they continued to regard the centre of the flickering fire, the notes of the youngest straying over into the pauses of the rest.†   (source)
  • He spoke simply, and utterly without emotion; with the manner of a teacher setting forth to a group of scholars an axiom in geometry, he would enunciate such propositions as made the hair of an ordinary person rise on end.†   (source)
  • Thus, in order to enunciate here only summarily, a law which it would require volumes to develop: in the high Orient, the cradle of primitive times, after Hindoo architecture came Phoenician architecture, that opulent mother of Arabian architecture; in antiquity, after Egyptian architecture, of which Etruscan style and cyclopean monuments are but one variety, came Greek architecture (of which the Roman style is only a continuation), surcharged with the Carthaginian dome; in modern…†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)