Example sentences for: vowel

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

  • Still, the user must contend with macrons over some vowels and with the intrusive h , which crops up here and there in order to lengthen a vowel.

  • Our word lariat comes from this Mexican word with the definite article prefixed and the final vowel dropped.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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ant , consult ant , defend ant; counsel or, elect or (al), jur or , where the schwa (as a in above, e in her ) has been replaced by broad (- ant ) or rounded (- or ) vowel sounds.


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