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Examples of glottal stop in a Sentence
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Same glottal stops, same consonants, a lot of the same vowels.
—Tomris Laffly, IndieWire, 20 June 2024
Her post-verbal texts are made of glottal stops and hisses, tongue clicks and tones pushed out from the diaphragm.
—Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 14 May 2018
His speech is unhurried and deliberate, conspicuously free of glottal stops.
—Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2018
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Word History
First Known Use
1888, in the meaning defined above
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“Glottal stop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glottal%20stop. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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