Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: alters
IPA transcription: ['ɔltɚz]
Usage examples
  • The atmosphere alters.
  • Not content with the material world about him, even when it is at its best, man alters it in many ways.
  • So without changing one's circumstances, merely by offering a wider horizon and a different standard, it alters the whole aspect of the world.
  • When a man would do murder, when that has been his steady and premeditated purpose for a year, waiting only for opportunity to serve his purpose, that purpose itself changes his very lineaments, alters his whole cast of countenance.
  • One never ceases to make a hero of one's self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of his heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead that seem greater.
  • This being so, man has but to right himself to find that the universe is right; and during the process of putting himself right he will find that as he alters his thoughts towards things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.