Produced without vibration of the vocal cords.
A consonant produced without sound from the vocal cords.
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Examples for "hard "
Examples for "hard "
1 First year was fine, he says, but second year was very hard .
2 But there's also a lot of hard work involved, often physical work.
3 It has been a year of hard work, focus, and great success.
4 Result: Stylish and yet hard to use and packed with proprietary technology.
5 Crew members don't just work hard -they often work every day.
1 They emphasize their duty to protect their young, voiceless patients from harm.
2 Discussion often frames the Border and its people as forgotten, ignored, voiceless .
3 And in the meantime, the voiceless tete-a-teteing of the five couples continued.
4 Animal life had something in it akin to her own voiceless being.
5 Rachael repeated in a voiceless undertone as she rapidly paced the room.
1 In unvoiced plosives children with specific language impairment demonstrated more often substitutions.
2 It's definitely a day where advice or strong opinions should remain unvoiced !
3 Whose strengths were fortitude and watchfulness and an unvoiced depth of caring.
4 In answer to his unvoiced question, one captain, Luc Valonforth, said, Apologies, milord.
5 Others see it simply as goy spelled backwards, with the final consonant unvoiced .
1 What meaneth this old dotard, surd and absurd, thus to control our actions?
2 Do you mean to say that you are not able to tell me what a surd is?
3 The problems have a surd or irrational element in them; and to solve them would be to bring reason into collision with itself.
4 We will take them a journey which shall much astonish the venerable Surd .
5 I was stupefied by surds ; and I entered the university.
6 For Furnace Second were no invitations to Professor Surd 's house.
7 In front of me stood Professor Surd himself, looking down with a not unpleasant smile.
8 And, therefore, it came that Furnace Second was reduced to zero in Professor Surd 's estimation.
9 Around me were the walls of Professor Surd 's study.
10 Professor Surd was at a faculty meeting.
11 Under me was a hard, unyielding plane which I knew too well was Professor Surd 's study floor.
12 At length Professor Surd came in.
13 These ' surds ' of metaphysics ought to occasion no more difficulty in speculation than a perpetually recurring fraction in arithmetic.
15 Professor Surd had a daughter.
16 Abscissa Surd was as perfectly symmetrical as Giotto's circle, and as pure, withal, as the mathematics her father taught.
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