Here you'll find 20 real example sentences with Accent, the meaning and synonyms like stress or emphasis. In Dutch this translates to accent.

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Accent in a sentence

Accent | Accents | Accenture | Accented | Accentuated | Accentuate | Accentuates | Accentuating | Accentuation

Accent meaning

  1. A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to emphasize it.
  2. Emphasis or importance in general.
  3. A mark used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken stress.

Synonyms of Accent

stress emphasis accentuate diacritical mark accent mark inflection prosody non-standard speech idiom dialect grandness importance pronunciation speech pattern diacritic

Accent in Dutch

accent klemtoon tongval uitspraak accentteken

Example sentences (20)

Sutherland settled on the 10X the Cash ticket because the ticket’s orange colour matched the accent colour in her home.

As well as mastering the accent, Emma, who hails from Northern Ireland, said she feels honoured to take on the title role.

For winter, pick a richer shade for your comforter or duvet cover, and buy sheets or accent pillow to match.

First to appear was the world’s largest sailing ship, a new-build cruise vessel with the accent on luxury.

Bonus points if you remember the little old lady with the accent who ruled rowdy teens with an iron fist.

From Miss Piggy and Kermit making an appearance to Olly Murs debuting an American accent, there were a lot of awkward moments.

Indeed, one of the issues Nollywood players from the time had with his film was its characters speaking with a western accent.

A less serious - but still pertinent question - is why nobody at Citadel seemed to notice Mason's unconvincing American accent.

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Ham’s salty, smoky, distinctive flavor makes it perfect for next-day dishes, where it can be used as more of an accent ingredient.

Kaye Adams was less than impressed with Janet Street-Porter after she said she needed subtitles to understand the Scottish accent.

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The 25-story elite new-construction building is one of the high-rise accent points of the quarter.

The acute accent (á, é, í, ó, ú) or circumflex accent (â, ê, î, ô, û, ŷ) marks long vowels in the Elvish languages.

I'm doing an American accent in the show, and there are just some phrases that are impossible for me to get my Australian mouth around.

Her voice's inability to work with a cockney accent also leads to one of 's funniest moments.

His flawless non-regional American accent was the result of some neverending method acting.

Katya Jones even tried to get to grips with a Scottish accent and she said "naw" and "Glasgow" in her best weegie accent.

The two word tones are conventionally called toneme 1 and toneme 2 in Norway and acute accent and grave accent in Sweden.

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Common combinations with accent

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "accent" in a sentence?
An example: "Sutherland settled on the 10X the Cash ticket because the ticket’s orange colour matched the accent colour in her home." This page contains 20 example sentences with the word "accent" from real English texts.
What does "accent" mean?
Accent means: A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to emphasize it.
What are synonyms of "accent"?
Common synonyms of "accent" include: stress, emphasis, accentuate, diacritical mark, accent mark, inflection, prosody, non-standard speech. Plus 7 more synonyms.
What is "accent" in Dutch?
"accent" translates to Dutch as: accent, klemtoon, tongval, uitspraak, accentteken.
How many example sentences with "accent" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 20 example sentences with "accent", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.

About these examples

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