In a sentence
Six example sentences with accented, each labelled with its topic.
Read the line aloud and every second syllable is accented, which is what gives the poem its steady march.
Literature
Singers hold the accented syllable a little longer and let their pitch rise on it, so the word lands.
Music
Guides warn that the accented syllable moves in the southern dialect, so the same place name sounds unfamiliar.
Travel
On the spectrogram the accented syllable shows up plainly, louder and longer than the two around it.
Science
The speech synthesizer must guess which syllable is accented, and it still says the noun record like the verb.
Technology
By nine months babies prefer words whose first syllable is accented, the pattern they hear most often in English.
Psychology
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