Example sentences for: vowel

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

  • Not only is the lack of a vowel sound between the consonants unacceptable, but the l and r are pronounced in all their glory: FILLIM, CORREN, CHARREM.

  • The first of these is the possessive, the second represents the vowel of is . (The Joyce title is typical of the author's linguistically inventive but allusive style, and is actually a compound of two proper names: that of Finn MaCool, the Irish folk-hero, and Tim Finnegan, the hero of a music-hall ballad, who sprang to life in the middle of his own wake.)

  • Liberman argues convincingly that the word is part of a large family of Germanic words having the form f + [short vowel] + [stop], having the base meaning to move back and forth (not to thrust, as most dictionaries, and the original edition of The F-Word, had it).

  • Since this English word has no association with guns, it is not possible that English gun triggered (as some have suggested) an irregular sound change, resulting in an English vowel which the Yiddish one would not otherwise have yielded.

  • 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').


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