In a sentence
Six example sentences with emphasized, each labelled with its topic.
In the dubbed version every threat lands flat, because the emphasized syllables fall on the wrong words entirely.
Movies
Read aloud, the poem turns on two emphasized words in the last line that the page alone never reveals.
Literature
Her heavily emphasized 'never' carried further than the paragraph around it, and every broadcast replayed that one second.
Politics
The lawyer's single emphasized word, never, hung in the courtroom longer than the ten minutes of argument around it.
Law
The huddle ended with one emphasized word, rebound, delivered so hard that the front row heard it over the band.
Basketball
Listeners recalled the emphasized words in the recording twice as often as the ones read in a flat voice.
Psychology
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