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Meanings of spirant in English
Catalan
consonant fricativa A continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract.
Of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')
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Synonyms
Examples for "strident"
Examples for "strident"
1
Whether they can bring more strident members along is a different question.
2
A strident English nationalist but someone at home with modern German literature.
3
The government put it through under urgency, amid strident protest from National.
4
Today's papers were equally strident - and optimistic - in their support.
5
Above the music he heard the childishly strident voice of the flapper:
1
The winds wailed sibilant and agonizing messages into the ears of Ootah:
2
He heard the soft sibilant sound of a breath drawn quickly in.
3
He hardly waited for the sibilant assurance before putting back the receiver.
4
There was a low, sibilant rise and fall-thebreathing of the creature.
5
Mortals. The last word turned sibilant, breathed out over a long while.
1
Go ahead, try that pharyngeal fricative yourself-butmaybe practice with some tongue twisters first.
2
Luckily, dialect coach Erik Singer is here to help you distinguish a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative from a uvular plosive.
3
It creaks open on ancient hinges, its bottom edge scraping against the floor with the fricative sound of wood against wood.
4
The analytical part of her linguist's brain began to collate, to catalog the distinctive staccato fricatives, but Carrianne forestalled her.
5
"Thiff is our cue to go." When he attempted a fricative, his busted lips blew a fine spray of blood.
Usage of spirant in English
1
She whispered abruptly, stopping on a spirant sound.
2
Thus F came to be the representative of the unvoiced labiodental spirant instead of that for the bilabial voiced spirant.
3
He thinks that the guttural element in x was a spirant, and therefore different from ch, which is an aspirate.
4
Orgos produced a pair of neatly rolled parchments and answered, with a Cherrati hand gesture, I am Alberro Spirant and this is my apprentice, Geoffrey.
Frequent collocations
Spirant through the time