voiceless

How To Use voiceless In A Sentence

• The prototypical noun may be (though need not be) quite long, stress will fall early in the word, the stressed vowel will be non-front, and the final consonant (if an obstruent) will be voiceless.
• I say I have not seen a single writer, artist, lecturer, or what not, that has confronted the voiceless but ever erect and active, pervading, underlying will and typic aspiration of the land, in a spirit kindred to itself. Democratic Vistas: Paras. 30–59. Collect
• But she wants her to know that the once voiceless children have spoken.
• The unselected four remain seated at the rear of the stage, tantalisingly voiceless. Times, Sunday Times
• More generally, voiceless obstruents are more frequent in onset position than voiced obstruents.
• In Arabic, there is no "p" sound (voiceless bilabial plosive), so it is often replaced with a "b" sound (voiced bilabial plosive). Election Central | Talking Points Memo | House Votes Overwhelmingly To Condemn MoveOn; Large Majority Of Dems Votes "Aye"
• In English, /h/ is like a voiceless vowel in that there is no fricative-like narrowing in the mouth, so that the greatest point of narrowing is in the glottis.
• Similarly, the voiceless velar or palatal fricative of OE (as in German ach and ich) continued in use for most of the period in England and continues to the present day in Scots.
• And some languages have three categories: negative (voiced), small (voiceless unaspirated), and large (voiceless aspirated).
• ‘An integrated use of the internet and community radio will be an effective means of reaching the unreached and voicing the voiceless,’ he says.