vowel

Example Sentences

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But Team Italy didn’t want to add players, forward Nick Saracino said, “just because you have a vowel in your name.”

From The Wall Street Journal

With her original, breathy way of speaking, stressing odd syllables and stretching random vowels to the breaking point, her mad fashions and family of wigs, Moira is a sketch character with depth.

From Los Angeles Times

I write out his name, letter by letter—ALFREDO—and show him how to pronounce the vowels and the consonants.

From Literature

Its opening poem, “Digging,” feels earthbound with its low-pitched vowels: “Between my finger and my thumb / The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Penelope tried to write Hereditary??? on her paper, but quickly lost patience with sorting out which vowels went where.

From Literature