How to Use consonant in a Sentence

consonant

1 of 2 adjective

• The rule is that a precedes consonant sounds and an precedes vowel sounds — a, e, i, o and u.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2021
• The music was both varied and likable across a range of tastes, which is to say, consonant with the theme of difference in union.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2021
• In ordinary tonal speech, the vocal cords make the pitch modulations that form the tones while the front of the mouth forms much of the vowel and consonant sounds.
  — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2021
• These unvoiced consonant sounds are common in most of our species’ languages.
  — Jan Osterkamp, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2021
• So the only way to get there—and in any case the only way that is consonant with Trump’s toxic modus operandi—is to smear Biden as (1) corrupt and (2) a closet Marxist.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New York Review of Books, 4 June 2020
• There is plenty of fun, consonant trivia about internet stock trading bulletin boards and chat rooms, as well as from the retail trading boom of the 1990s.
  — New York Times, 29 Jan. 2021
• But if streaming has facilitated the use of the F-word, with its punchy hard-consonant ending, why are artists and listeners increasingly drawn to it in the first place?
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2022
• Set in a small town in rural white America in the middle of flyover country, APT is not only staging world-class work, consonant with its history of offering the same.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2017
• This was consonant, repetitious music, major and balladic in tone, but not form.
  — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2017
• An alternative theory is far more consonant with the facts.
  — Joseph E. Stiglitz, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2018
• The single change in consonant doesn’t begin to encompass the transformation.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 7 Feb. 2020
• The outlawing and expulsion of those who disagree is completely consonant with his concept of freedom. . . .
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
• Clearly the curators have a strong, focused vision that’s refreshingly consonant with the collection and its home.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 12 June 2021
• But in terms of presidential history, Trump’s use of the executive toolbox is very much consonant with past practice.
  — Andrew Rudalevige, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2018
• Drawing from the cadences and content of Hawaiian chants as well as the consonant twang of country music, the group combined historical reverence with show-business appeal.
  — Nate Chinen, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2017
• In a third-grade classroom, a two-member teaching team split up students for small-group reading, then the class gathered to decode consonant combinations as a group, some drawing on their one-on-one time with the reading specialist.
  — Christopher Huffaker, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2022
• Yiddish Jews were one recognized minority group in the ethnic hodgepodge of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires, and the only group whose status wasn’t consonant with a piece of land.
  — Martin Peretz, WSJ, 8 May 2018
• Sample garments abound on shelves and dress forms at Knit Schitck — schtick being Yiddish for an entertainer’s routine and sharing some consonant sounds with stecken, German for stick, like knitting needles might be.
  — Hillary Davis, Daily Pilot, 13 Sep. 2019
• The show’s themes seem particularly consonant now in a country whose political atmosphere seems sick at heart.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2019
• Tiny delays after certain sound combinations—such as consonant clusters—could help us distinguish words in noisy settings.
  — Catherine Matacic, Science | AAAS, 24 Apr. 2018
• The study found the Neanderthal ear’s sweet spot extended toward frequencies of 3 to 5 kHz, which are specifically dedicated to consonant production.
  — New York Times, 1 Mar. 2021
• Only a few situations produced fast and strong air jets capable of traveling up to a few feet or so: singing consonant sounds with an almost closed mouth, and exhaling between bouts of playing, particularly for oboe players.
  — Calli McMurray, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2022
• The Assad government issued visas selectively and its minders herded journalists to stories that were consonant with its narrative.
  — Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2018
• Homing in assiduously on sexuality and faith as consonant or conflicting forces, the play can be heartbreaking, as when exploring Chris’s trauma.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 27 June 2022
• But some languages use abjads instead, which are basically consonant alphabets.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2022
• The Founders’ art consisted in the creation of a national institutional framework consonant with the Revolutionary commitment to local self-government.
  — Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
• The study found the Neanderthal ear's sweet spot extended toward frequencies specifically dedicated to consonant production.
  — Star Tribune, 11 Mar. 2021
• Throughout the weekend, speakers put forward a vision for conservative political economy that’s consonant with both Americanism and conservatism.
  — Kevin Roberts, National Review, 4 Aug. 2022
• Surely accompanied by violinist Byungchan Lee, Peterson’s understated language of consonant chords put together in unexpected ways suggested short stories told in a spare style, hiding turbulent emotions beneath.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2021
• The three operas varied distinctly 21st-century musical strategies, triangulating film music, Sondheim and latter-day minimalism’s consonant drive.
  — Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2020

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consonant

2 of 2 noun

• The more words, the less fill — and so the fewer consonants.
  — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2019
• The Clue: This word starts with a consonant and ends with a vowel.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 4 Feb. 2023
• The Clue: This word has more consonants than vowels in it.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 May 2023
• The Clue: There are way more consonants than vowels in this word.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• The Clue: There are more vowels than consonants in this word.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
• The Clue: There are more consonants than vowels in this word.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• Short, clear names with one to two consonants also work better than a lengthy name.
  — Zoë Gowen, Southern Living, 20 Sep. 2016
• Short, clear names with one to two consonants also work better than a lengthy name.
  — Zoë Gowen, Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• The tongues of native New Yorkers land heavy on consonants, and on vowels, too.
  — Mark Warren, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2017
• The Clue: This word ends in a letter that can function as either a vowel or a consonant.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2022
• Instead, the contestant in control of the wheel at the time will spin to determine the amount each consonant is worth during the speed up round.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 8 Sep. 2021
• The ebbs and flows of History come in much grander scale, and the heat currently on display around the planet is consonant with that kind of much grander change.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 26 July 2023
• Jason Pieper planted the 9-foot-tall and 11½-foot-wide consonant outside his Lake Elmo home in time for it to be dusted with a light snow.
  — Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, 14 Dec. 2020
• Click sounds, such as those found in some languages in Africa, make perfectly good consonants.
  — Anne Pycha, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2017
• Around the edge are Korean consonants meant to represent the effort of the athletes.
  — NBC News, 1 Nov. 2017
• Names that start with consonants are not popular right now.
  — CBS News, 24 Sep. 2017
• Listen to her long vowels and keen consonants; listen to the leitmotif of pain.
  — Wayne Koestenbaum, New York Times, 15 July 2016
• The effect hollows out his tone and emphasizes the consonants and breaths in his performance.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2023
• This was consonant with his long-term taste for DIY, and just a different form of tinkering, of seeing things from all angles.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
• But diction was mushy — this in German, a language of forward vowels and crisp consonants.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 9 June 2023
• But if that vowel was followed by a consonant, the time after the beat went up an average of 80 milliseconds.
  — Catherine Matacic, Science | AAAS, 24 Apr. 2018
• Whiskey and wine share a common consonant, and the two beverages will also share top billing at the Chicago Whiskey & Wine Festival.
  — Adam Lukach, RedEye Chicago, 23 Feb. 2018
• Chords, some consonant, some whatever the cat might have created walking on the keys, came and went, came and went, most quietly.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 3 June 2019
• Jacksonville, the franchise that couldn’t spell Super Bowl if Vanna White hand-delivered all of the consonants, has won 12 of its past 15 games dating to last season.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2023
• What felt real was Italian accents; names with more vowels than consonants; nuns who played baseball with us in the schoolyard; and Msgr.
  — Elise Patkotak, Alaska Dispatch News, 27 June 2017
• Jason Pieper outlasted all the others and on Tuesday won the two-week online battle for the giant metal consonant that drew 66 bids.
  — Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, 1 Dec. 2020
• That consonant is tooth and jowl, With every letter, every vowel.
  — Lou Craft, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2017
• This tells me that the ability to separate the tonal contour from the consonants and vowels must be a crucial component of this illusion.
  — Ben MacAulay, Popular Science, 22 June 2023
• Neither, exactly; their meanings always slip from their constituent consonants and vowels, drip, puddle, cling to the roof of your mouth.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• And most of these weren’t phonetic alphabets with consonants and vowels.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024