In a sentence
Six example sentences with accent, each labelled with its topic.
The actress spent three months with a dialect coach, and critics could not place her accent as anything but local.
Movies
Two villages an hour apart, and the older farmers speak with an accent the younger ones can barely follow.
Travel
The novelist wrote the sailor's accent phonetically, and readers complained that every line took twice as long to parse.
Literature
The singer's accent comes through on every vowel, and fans in her home city cheer the first line of each song.
Music
Listeners judged the same speech as more trustworthy when the speaker's accent matched their own, the study found.
Psychology
The new coach's accent puzzled the players for a week, and the point guard translated his calls for the bench.
Basketball
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