Example sentences for: vowel

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

  • 292: “Just as the American recalls that French words should be stressed on the final syllable, he recalls, or thinks he recalls, that all Spanish words should end with a vowel: sombrero , señorita , noche and so on.

  • 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').

  • Interestingly, whereas tamale and frijole have acquired a nonetymological vowel, blints has lost an etymological vowel.

  • For several generations the Sanskrit word brahman (pronounced BRAAHMAN, the first vowel sounds as in the English word father ) has been used in the English language.

  • The interviews are preceded by a set of drill-words, presumably to establish the regional pronunciation of English vowel sounds, which have, over the centuries, undergone many striking changes.


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