How to Use phonetic in a Sentence

phonetic

adjective

• Spanish is a more phonetic language than English.
• This dictionary uses the International Phonetic Alphabet.
• In phonetic Lebanese Arabic, the name for the recipe is murabba el meshmosh.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2023
• There was no doubt, the board said, that the target market would read it as the phonetic and literal equivalent of the f-word.
  — Derek Hawkins, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2017
• Before the graduates had filed into the arena, they were given the card on which Schoon had made his phonetic notes.
  — Erika Rose, Post-Tribune, 2 May 2018
• The deaf person would learn to associate each letter of the alphabet with a phonetic sound.
  — National Geographic, 28 May 2019
• Either it’s a misspelling of the Shawano Tribe, which were forcibly removed from the area in 1840, or a phonetic spelling of Charbonneau, the name of a local French rancher.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Jan. 2022
• The app also does a great job of recognizing phonetic misspelling, like blk for black or lfnt for elephant.
  — Suzie Glassman, Wired, 16 Oct. 2021
• Relating the sounds in this name to variables in the final strings, Hyland proposed a phonetic decipherment of it.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 4 Jan. 2019
• To teach it the correct way, add a phonetic pronunciation.
  — Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2023
• His most important conclusion was that some hieroglyphs appeared to give phonetic cues, signs of a word’s sound.
  — The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• This is due to the Chinese phonetic pronunciation of the number being similar to the word for death and suffering.
  — Michael Simon, PCWorld, 15 June 2017
• Much like Rude, Aoki listened to elders speak and transcribed their words into phonetic symbols.
  — Wil Phinney, oregonlive, 12 Nov. 2022
• The description was precise, and the phonetic voice-leading was musical, the A sound carrying from faint to pale, which broke the F alliteration just enough, and then the strong through-tone of like, lights, midnight . . .
  — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2017
• But even as MRSA searches became more common, so did searches for mersa — the bug’s phonetic spelling.
  — Brandon Keim, WIRED, 20 May 2011
• Dunkin', formerly known as Dunkin' Donuts, was one of the popularizers of the phonetic spelling of the word and helped to popularize it, according to the article.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 7 June 2019
• Williams specifically talked highly of Seikovits, or Psycho as some may call him because of the phonetic sounding reference.
  — Kamryn Walker, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2021
• As such, the team settled on phonetic parameters that commonly apply to Nigerian English as part of guidelines for the project.
  — Yomi Kazeem, Quartz Africa, 31 July 2019
• The difference is that while infants pick up an incredible library of phonetic sounds between 14 and 20 months, dogs never progress any further.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2020
• We get sent the English translation, the High Valyrian, a phonetic translation, and then also audio recordings, and one [method] would be to try and parrot back the audio recordings.
  — Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2022
• No matter — even in purely phonetic form, his remarkable voice functioned as another instrument, cutting through the din of the guitars.
  — Keith Spera, NOLA.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• The Aztecs had a pictographic writing system of their own, and as a result, were fascinated when the Spanish friars first taught them the phonetic Roman alphabet.
  — Camilla Townsend, Time, 1 Nov. 2019
• Creative phonetic renderings — attempts to convey the brainfeel of a sound — are all over TikTok, especially when the sound in question involves a human voice.
  — New York Times, 17 Aug. 2022
• Kids need to read texts that include only those phonetic patterns that have been explicitly taught, among other requirements.
  — cleveland, 21 Dec. 2022
• Most important, the prevalence of homophones in the Chinese language means that a phonetic script would lead to endless misunderstandings.
  — Hugo Restall, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2022
• Maguire named her after the phonetic pronunciation of author L. Frank Baum’s initials.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2021
• Most of the amendments appear to correct typographical errors and phonetic misspellings in the initial transcript.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2022
• The invention of the alphabet dates to some 4,000 years ago, when merchants and mercenaries in Egypt’s Western Desert developed a phonetic system of symbols that could be rearranged into words.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2020
• Edwards spent weeks consulting with Swahili-proficient colleagues and putting Pepper through many trials with phonetic spelling.
  — Kate Keller, Smithsonian, 27 Apr. 2018
• On one recent Friday back at P.S. 11, Anthony left his morning reading class about halfway through, as his teacher began running through flash cards on phonetic sounds, to head to his special literacy lesson with another student.
  — Troy Closson, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024