homophone

How To Use homophone In A Sentence

• You merely assumed that was the homophone I meant.
• In between the 9th (1987) and 10th (1993) editions, the M-W lexicographers discovered that the people who had imported the bird into the western US called it simply "chukar," not "chukar partridge," and furthermore pronounced it in a completely anglicized form, not knowing or caring that that made it a homophone of some polo term. Languagehat.com: CHUKAR.
• It is interesting to note that of the 18 homophones that were common to both experiments, the same response bias was observed in 16 of them.
• He never learnt Irish and his philological arguments tended to invoke specious homophones and improbable etymologies.
• The vase shape symbolizes peace, because the Chinese word for ‘vase’ is a homophone for the word for ‘peace’.
• Because of the risk of confusion between homophones, the words were first read in a sentence.
• But there are huge numbers of homophones that are also homographs: pen ‘writing implement’, pen ‘enclosure for animals’, and pen ‘penitentiary’, to choose a textbook example.
• The difference between "homonym" and "homophone" posting discussed sound-alike words that are often mistaken for one another, despite their different meanings. CJR
• Apart from the distressing number of literals and homophones which infest my proof copy, my main criticism is that the author never quite succeeds in bringing her subject into full view.
• We're so fat these days that there was a period when we tried to convince ourselves that someone calling us "disgustingly sloppy fat" might be good, because "phat" and "fat" were homophones! This is why we're fat: Missing Jack LaLanne