Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: surmounting
IPA transcription: [sɚm'aʊntɪŋ]
Pronunciations of surmounting
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Usage examples
  • I do not despair of surmounting
  • And here, indeed, I am sensible of difficulties which I almost despair of surmounting according to my wishes.
  • He found an agent of the Underground Rail Road, and after surmounting various difficulties, this point was settled.
  • He was, moreover, surprised, on surmounting them, to find that a large glacier, of whose existence, notwithstanding his previous knowledge of the mountains, he had been absolutely ignorant, lay between him and the source of the Golden River.
  • They hold that to act with efficacy upon the press it would be necessary to find a tribunal, not only devoted to the existing order of things, but capable of surmounting the influence of public opinion; a tribunal which should conduct its proceedings without publicity, which should pronounce its decrees without assigning its motives, and punish the intentions even more than the language of an author.
  • A stone monument, six feet high, just observable through the willows on the right shore, marks the boundary; while upon the left bank, surmounting a high, rock-strewn beach, is the dilapidated frame house of a West Virginia "cracker," through whose garden-patch the line takes its way, unobserved and unthought of by pigs, chickens and children, which in hopeless promiscuity swarm the interstate premises.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Neuschwanstein Castle, License CC BY-SA 4.0