CONSONANT in a Sentence

consonant

 n.  a speech sound that is not a vowel

 a.  in agreement

1  Nothing could have been less consonant with Selden's mood than Van Alstyne's after-dinner aphorisms, but as long as the latter confined himself to generalities his listener's nerves were in control.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14

2  She spoke in the soft slurring voice of the coastal Georgian, liquid of vowels, kind to consonants and with the barest trace of French accent.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III

3  Only an insane contortion of spelling could portray his lyric whine, his mangled consonants.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII

4  Her conception of the character was as heavy and uncompromising as her diction; she bore hard on the idea and on the consonants.

My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III

5  As if I ever stop thinking about the girl and her confounded vowels and consonants.

Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT III

6  All these young, maniacal, puny, merry incoherences lived in harmony together, and the result was an eccentric and agreeable being whom his comrades, who were prodigal of winged consonants, called Jolllly.

Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC

1  New consonant music and postmodern music for contemporary composers and performers.

2  A polar vortex, with its satisfyingly assonant vowels and crisp consonants, sounds like either a down coat made by Patagonia or an enormous luxury-brand SUV—that is, an expensive product meant to evoke the wilds but actually used by coddled suburbanites.

3  Upon the signal, the subjects were asked to recall as many consonants in their correct places as possible.