PHONETIC in a Sentence

Learn PHONETIC from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

10 example sentences for PHONETIC, such as:

1. Well, this isn't a phonetic job.
2. Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.
3. A list of phonetic symbols is given in the front of the dictionary.
4. The study of phonetics is the study of the acoustic and articulator properties of speech sounds.
5. In languages that have great phonetic differences, like Chinese and Japanese, they are often unrecognizable.

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 Meanings and Examples of PHONETIC
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
phonetic
 a.  of or pertaining to the voice; relating to sounds of spoken language
Classic Sentence:
1  I saw at once that I was on the right track; phonetic spelling had again misled me.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
2  Well, this isn't a phonetic job.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
3  And on the profits of it I do genuine scientific work in phonetics, and a little as a poet on Miltonic lines.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
4  It was interesting enough at first, while we were at the phonetics; but after that I got deadly sick of it.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
5  The word passion means nothing else to them; and that Higgins could have a passion for phonetics and idealize his mother instead of Eliza, would seem to them absurd and unnatural.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
6  When Eliza referred again to her project of teaching phonetics, Higgins abated not a jot of his violent opposition to it.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
Example Sentence:
1  Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.
2  A list of phonetic symbols is given in the front of the dictionary.
3  In languages that have great phonetic differences, like Chinese and Japanese, they are often unrecognizable.
4  The study of phonetics is the study of the acoustic and articulator properties of speech sounds.