Example sentences for: vowels

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

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

  • 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.

  • Soundex works mostly by ignoring the vowels in a name and assigning an alphanumeric code to the name based on the remaining consonants.

  • 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.

  • where it indicates that two vowels side by side are not a diphthong but separate, distinct vowels.


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