Example sentences for: vowels

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

  • In short, the issue is the color of their skin, not the color of their vowels.

  • Thus, English has champac `tree' instead of campak, gharry `horse-drawn cab or carriage' instead of gari, darshan `a Hindu blessing' instead of darsan . A change of vowels or a doubling of a consonant is also not infrequent, thus giving English kunkur `variety of limestone' in lieu of kankar, mulmul `muslin' in lieu of malmal, muggar `kind of crocodile' in lieu of magar . Dozens of similar examples could be cited.

  • One might look ahead a hundred years to imagine the squeaky English pronunciation of the late 21st century, all front vowels, and with a heavy rhythm caused by habitual stressing of the first syllable in words.

  • Other misunderstandings frequently occur because of an inability to distinguish between the vowels of bit and beet.

  • For wrestling, or what is loosely called wrestling in the United States and Latin America, the people of the Southern Cone of South America went to the English catch-as-catchcan . If you are familiar with the difficulty Spanish speakers have with dentals and fricatives when these are not separated by vowels, you can understand that the task of producing a string of sounds like that tends to stop a conversation, if not the speaker.


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