adjective

• Of or produced by the glottis.

  ‘the unmistakable glottal accent of my home town’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Modern phoneticians would more precisely categorize such consonants into velar, uvular, pharyngeal, and glottal articulations.’
  • ‘Many have strangely unresonant, throat-blocked, or glottal voices and use ‘up-talk,’ the tendency to end all sentences in a rising, questioning inflection.’’
  • ‘But one thing holds him back: the facial tics, glottal sounds, and uncontrollable gestures of Tourette's Syndrome.’
  • ‘Water would have been excluded from the trachea during normal swimming and in heavy seas, by a glottal valve and a large muscular tongue.’
  • ‘She employs dramatic chest tones and an occasional glottal attack in her denunciation of the oracles.’