Over time these collective influences combined to give New York its distinctive accent.

The distinctive accent and voice are suggested, not imitated.

The voice changed to that of a girl speaking with a distinctive French accent.

The local language of the area is Javanese, spoken with a distinctive regional accent.

She has a characteristic appearance and speaks with a distinctive Italian accent.

The new comers soon began to speak with their own distinctive accent and vocabulary.

Only this year there is a distinctive Swedish accent.

He was a huge man with a full beard and a slight but distinctive English accent.

The woman also noted that he spoke with a distinctive accent, possibly Irish.

"No, I don't think a tower," he said, drawing out the first word in his distinctive accent.