PRONOUNCE in a Sentence

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190 example sentences for PRONOUNCE, such as:

1. I don't know how to pronounce this word.
2. He could not manage to pronounce his Ds.
3. It is a bad moment to pronounce the word love.
4. The court pronounced against my claim to the land.
5. The dinner was pronounced excellent by all the guests.

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 Meanings and Examples of PRONOUNCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pronounce
 v.  say a word or a letter in a correct way
 v.  state something officially or formally, such as a judgment
Classic Sentence: (174 in 12 pages)
1  If any young man ventured to pronounce an eulogium on the Republic in his presence, he turned purple and grew so angry that he was on the point of swooning.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT
2  You can, at will, pronounce O and P or Orestes and Pylades.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
3  It is a bad moment to pronounce the word love.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A C...
4  The bravest hesitated to pronounce his own condemnation.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER I—THE FLAG: ACT FIRST
5  For our own part, we never pronounce those words without pain and without respect, for when philosophy fathoms the facts to which they correspond, it often finds many a grandeur beside these miseries.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
6  He could not manage to pronounce his Ds.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII—THE GRANDFATHER
7  After the fever and delirium had left him, he did not again pronounce her name, and it might have been supposed that he no longer thought of her.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY F...
8  Gentlemen," said Jussac, "it is with great regret that I pronounce the thing impossible.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 5 THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS
9  Comrades, here and now I pronounce the death sentence upon Snowball.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
10  The audience were too much interested in the question not to pronounce the Prince's assumed right altogether indubitable.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  The Grand Master had collected the suffrages, and now in a solemn tone demanded of Rebecca what she had to say against the sentence of condemnation, which he was about to pronounce.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
12  Yet this demure affectation of extreme penitence was whimsically belied by a ludicrous meaning which lurked in his huge features, and seemed to pronounce his fear and repentance alike hypocritical.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
13  'The magistrates are not called upon to pronounce any opinion on the matter,' said the second old gentleman sharply.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  To complain of cold in sitting out of doors, hatless and coatless, while Fairway told true stories between the cuts of the scissors, would have been to pronounce yourself no man at once.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
15  I found the ash of a cigar, which my special knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian cigar.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  I don't know how to pronounce this word.
2  In China, for example, where a number of different dialects are spoken, the same character can be pronounced in myriad ways.
3  "Indeed, mama, but you can -- and will," pronounced the haughty voice of Blanche, as she turned round on the piano-stool.
4  So pronounced is this class distinction that some races will not go near another for fear of being polluted.
5  "Indeed, mama, " pronounced the haughty voice of Blanche, as she turned round on the piano-stool; where till now she had sat silent, apparently examining sundry sheets of music.
6  No act of abnegation was more pronounced than his refusal of any rewards for his discovery.
7  The posterior leg pairs were slightly longer than those preceding it, giving the creature a pronounced trough between its 'back' and the vertically oriented front end.
8  The court pronounced against my claim to the land.
9  The dinner was pronounced excellent by all the guests.
10  Today's chefs love to lace their goods with lively, pronounced flavors.
11  On his refusal to appear in person or by his attorney, he was pronounced contumacious.
12  I'm told I have a very pronounced English accent when I speak French.
13  Latest statistics suggest the North/South divide is becoming even more pronounced.
14  The judge pronounced for the defendant, and also said that his opponent should pay the court costs.
15  The judge pronounced against the prisoner, and he was led away by the policeman.