accented

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The announcer, speaking in American-accented English, explained how skateboarding became a real sport, not just a street sport, and talked about the various riders we were going to see competing (rider being the term for what I would have called a skateboarder).

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  • It was Southern-accented, smooth and smarmy as one of those TV evangelists who have recently been plaguing the airwaves. —  Muller, Marcia - [McCone 08] Eye of the Storm UC FR.htm
  • His voice was as smooth as cognac and lightly accented, as Emily had remembered. —  Teresa Medeiros - Once An Angel
  • His Turkic was basic and heavily accented, and Bahram switched to Persian, which Mantuni acknowledged with a grateful dip of the head. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
  • His voice is accented, his glasses round; despite the uniform he has the look of an intellectual You are Samuel Goudsmit, theoretical physicist," says the Judge One of the few in America not working on the bomb." —  F ;SF - vol 100 issue 04 - April 2001
  • His Caerdicci was faintly accented, and he ignored Volos' hovering blade as if it didn't exist. —  Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel 02 - Kushiel's Chosen
 

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