How to Use enunciate in a Sentence

enunciate

verb

• He set out to enunciate the basic principles of his system.
• Children should be taught to enunciate clearly.
• So in his order, the judge wants to correctly enunciate the law.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 9 Sep. 2017
• Baby never has to beg, never even has to enunciate or open her eyes past half-mast.
  — Diablo Cody, Vogue, 2 May 2018
• To confront the truth is first to enunciate it, and on neither count was American society equal to the task.
  — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2021
• Stretching from tip to tail are splash guards and overfenders that enunciate the more outdoorsy look.
  — Sue Mead, Houston Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2020
• Among other things the members of the class of 2018 were advised to speak slowly, loudly and to enunciate into the microphone.
  — Sarah Espedido, OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• On Monday night, Mr. Trump once again declined to enunciate a strategy for war in Afghanistan.
  — Robert Bateman, Esquire, 23 Aug. 2017
• And the actors haven’t all come to grips with how to project their voices and enunciate in a way that lets them be heard and understood when their backs are to half their audience.
  — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2022
• Some of the messages of the film—about the importance of believing in oneself and the like—are commonplace and enunciated all too clearly.
  — Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2018
• There is a schism among metal singers over whether to enunciate well enough to make lyrics comprehensible.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 18 May 2018
• With it, Cordray supported extending to the states a personal right to bear arms first enunciated by the court in 2008.
  — Emily Stewart, Vox, 9 May 2018
• The fatty meat and wok hei work well together to enunciate the charred flavor in each bite, offset by pungent Thai basil and young green peppercorns.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Oct. 2021
• Yoshioka, as well, has always striven to make sure that her vowels are enunciated and the melody shines through clearly.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 13 Nov. 2023
• Duarte, who wrapped up his freshman year at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, speaks with a deliberate tone, enunciates clearly and isn't afraid to joke on the air.
  — Chris Lawrence, Alaska Dispatch News, 6 July 2017
• But Dragon required users to enunciate clearly and pause between each word, and cost nine thousand dollars.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2023
• Waiting for the sourdough to rise has given people the patience to enunciate multisyllable names like Genevieve, Josephine, and Theodore.
  — Laura Lane, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022
• The former vice president, who struggled growing up with a stutter, stuttered slightly at the start of the show and at one point squeezed his eyes shut and slowed down his response to clearly enunciate his words.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Oct. 2020
• Keith haltingly enunciates his room number in a half-giggle, because, Who cares about the room number?
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
• For many, enunciating or writing a reversal of the shahada—a declaration of faith in Islam—was the first step.
  — Darren E. Sherkat, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2015
• The Price Doctrine, enunciated by the manager shortly after the Break (and, um, in the final few months of 2015), is all about discovering which pitchers currently in the big leagues can, well, pitch in the big leagues.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 21 Aug. 2017
• The legendary Black Thought and Pete Rock performed classic after classic, schooling the younger mumble rappers on how to enunciate.
  — Aarick Knighton, The Root, 5 June 2017
• The former vice president, who struggled growing up with a stutter, stuttered slightly at the start of the program and at one point squeezed his eyes shut and slowed down his response to clearly enunciate his words.
  — The Associated Press, NOLA.com, 16 Oct. 2020
• Balmond puts on some Bach but continues talking over the rising strains of the music, his words clipped but perfectly enunciated.
  — Jennifer Kabat, WIRED, 1 Apr. 2001
• Abigail, the first deaf contestant in the franchise's history, reveals her cochlear implants to Matt, who promises to enunciate clearly for her.
  — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2021
• Luckily, Business Insider has compiled a list of a few of the most challenging cuisine names to enunciate, breaking down the origins and the correct ways to pronounce them.
  — Atlanta Life, ajc, 25 Apr. 2017
• Depressed patients don’t enunciate vowels as much as people who aren’t depressed.
  — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2019
• The line about inclusion was a veiled reference to Trump but carefully enunciated.
  — Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2018
• She was listed as Marthe Fousson, a variation on the name that seemed reasonable, given that Calment had difficulty enunciating at the end of her life.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2020
• Nickelodeon's Spongebob Challenge skill ups the ante a bit, requiring little listeners to pay closer attention and enunciate better than with the Sesame Street skill.
  — John Patrick Pullen, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024