Example sentences for: schwa

How can you use “schwa” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Nor is communication really disrupted even by those new, semiliterate Americanisms: communic ant , consult ant , defend ant; counsel or, elect or (al), jur or , where the schwa (as a in above, e in her ) has been replaced by broad (- ant ) or rounded (- or ) vowel sounds.

  • This is the way organism is transcribed in the key; but the text itself shows a full schwa, which indicates that perhaps Wells vacillated on this point himself.

  • For example, the symbol “uh’ is shown in the key as representing schwa, yet throughout the book it is used to represent the vowel sound in English ball or raw (BUHbe `grandmother,' puhGRUHM `pogrom').

  • ” (To the Anglo ear the final o , an a , and perhaps the e of calle are schwa.)

  • Also, the editors have avoided the schwa \?\, preferring to resurrect the antediluvian system used by Merriam-Webster in the Second Edition of their Unabridged (and since abandoned by almost everyone).


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