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How to use mispronounce in a sentence

10 example sentences · verb

Mispronounce means to pronounce (a word, phrase, etc.) incorrectly. Example: ““Yallo.” There was a small cough, then the voice repeated the mispronounced greeting.”

More sentences with mispronounce

  • “Yallo.” There was a small cough, then the voice repeated the mispronounced greeting.2004, John Powell III, Hunter And Hunted, page 440. From the entry yallo
  • He questioned whether people would call her Yolanda or mispronounce the name.1969, Coretta Scott King, My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, page 107. From the entry Yolanda
  • A question from, probably mispronouncing it, Gemma.2022 July 21, Bernie Sanders, “We can't give in to doomerism.”, in YouTube. From the entry doomerism
  • Had I mispronounced one of the correct words, mispaced one of the steps, forgotten one of the essential herbs?1999, Mary Brown, The Unlikely Ones, page 422. From the entry mispace
  • They managed, in repeating his name like the echoing mountains, to mispronounce or misinflect every syllable of it.1998, Starling Lawrence, Montenegro: A Novel, page 31. From the entry misinflect
  • New Alresford is constantly mispronounced, T-shaped, honeycombed with cellars, packed with antique shops, riddled with woodworm, surrounded by watercress.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 144. From the entry honeycomb
  • Her name is so frequently mispronounced that it bothers her.1969, Coretta Scott King, My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, page 107. From the entry Yolanda
  • The first time she was nasty for no apparent reason, was on course, when I mispronounced the manager in charge of wardrobe's name, Suzette.2010, Derra St. Denis, chapter 20, in Flip the Bird, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu, →ISBN. From the entry suzette
  • And, further, who has not heard what someone has christened the "Oxford" mince, where every consonant is mispronounced and every vowel gets a wrong value?1928, R. M. Pope, The Education Outlook, volume 80, page 285. From the entry mince
  • The training is not primarily intended for children who merely mispronounce or misenunciate or express themselves inaptly, unidiomatically and incorrectly for reasons other than defects of speech.1924, John Edward Wallace Wallin, The Education of Handicapped Children, page 124. From the entry misenunciate

Meaning of mispronounce

  1. verb To pronounce (a word, phrase, etc.) incorrectly.

Full definition of mispronounce

Questions about mispronounce in a sentence

How do you use mispronounce in a sentence?
Mispronounce is used as a verb. For example: ““Yallo.” There was a small cough, then the voice repeated the mispronounced greeting.”
What is a short sentence with mispronounce?
“A question from, probably mispronouncing it, Gemma.”
What does mispronounce mean?
Mispronounce means to pronounce (a word, phrase, etc.) incorrectly.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mispronounce (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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