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
• Their phonetic systems were housed in vertical tubes that supplied warm, moist air similar to the air that enters the body when breathing.
  — Jorge Garay, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2023
• 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
• This includes preferred pronouns and phonetic pronunciations of names to avoid any mix-ups.
  — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 3 Jan. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024