But others . . . her mind tried to grasp the unfamiliar syllables, but they slipped away.

His lips shaped unfamiliar syllables.

Zander struggled to wrap his tongue around the unfamiliar syllables.

"I'm sorry, but they aren't very bright, and they think any-thing they don't recognize is going to eat them," the grel-handler kept saying, over and over, stumbling a little over the unfamiliar syllables of the Iron Peoples' tongue.

Tain's tongue stumbled over the unfamiliar syllables.

Her bold red lipstick is also a teaching tool: she wears it so students can see how her mouth moves as they struggle to pronounce the unfamiliar Korean syllables.

His tongue stumbled over the unfamiliar syllables, s different from those of Unkerlanter.

Ben repeated unfamiliar syllables.

The man's face screwed up as he tried to assemble the unfamiliar syllables.

I scowled, pronouncing the unfamiliar syllables in my mind.