How to Use vowel in a Sentence

vowel

noun
Definition of vowelnext
  • The crush has an Italian last name that ends in a vowel.
    — Elana Rabinowitz, Baltimore Sun, 1 July 2024
  • Instruments are played to match the French vowel sounds of the text.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2021
  • The Clue: This word starts with a consonant and ends with a vowel.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Wheel of Fortune is ready to take a new vowel salesman for a spin.
    — Vulture, 27 June 2023
  • The findings have to do with the slight movement of the tongue when people pronounce vowels.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The Clue: This word has more consonants than vowels in it.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 May 2023
  • The singing of Latin brought purer vowels into the King’s sound, which was pleasing.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The airline worker in turn says there are too many vowels in his name, and compares him to a mob piece.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Some sang in close harmony, some sang long vowels, like a bed of strings.
    — National Geographic, 24 July 2019
  • The sheet also includes data like how many vowels the day’s word had.
    — Saira Mueller, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The games take on a Hatfield vs. McCoys vibe, except all the players’ names end in a vowel.
    — Lenny Megliola, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2019
  • Women’s names, for instance, are longer, and are more likely to end in a vowel sound.
    — Lisa Ward, WSJ, 21 May 2021
  • Buy some vowels and solve the puzzle for good news: Vanna White is back on Wheel of Fortune.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The rule is that a precedes consonant sounds and an precedes vowel sounds — a, e, i, o and u.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2021
  • What defeats Hughes is not her short game so much as the fade of her long and lofted vowels.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2019
  • If a sound segment consisted of just one vowel, the time after the beat was quite short.
    — Catherine Matacic, Science | AAAS, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Same glottal stops, same consonants, a lot of the same vowels.
    — Tomris Laffly, IndieWire, 20 June 2024
  • At their wedding, Steve and his new bride exchanged vowels.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2024
  • If not, the site with more vowels than consonants in its name is still great for a relaxing round of golf.
    — Al Petersen, Orange County Register, 1 Mar. 2017
  • The tongues of native New Yorkers land heavy on consonants, and on vowels, too.
    — Mark Warren, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2017
  • According to Kyr, in the last section, the duo sings pure vowels that have no concrete meaning.
    — James Bash | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The Clue: This word ends in a letter that can function as either a vowel or a consonant.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Our first puzzle challenged readers to figure out which one of these three vowel-rich words is the best first guess.
    — Pradeep Mutalik, Quanta Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The strategy seems to make sense: Figure out the vowels, and the other letters will fall into place.
    — Aatish Bhatia, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Blues left me with 128 remaining words and one vowel in yellow.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • This explains the macron, a symbol most of us learned in first grade to identify long vowel sounds, on Mondelēz.
    — Sara Lomelin, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2024
  • My opening guess here got me a green on the left word and, more crucially, the letter ‘O’ which ends up being the main vowel across both words.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 17 June 2022
  • For example, Markle’s vowels might still sound American, but the lilt of the sentence might be less so.
    — Cari Romm, The Cut, 10 July 2018
  • In ordinary tonal speech, the vocal cords make the pitch modulations that form the tones while the front of the mouth forms much of the vowel and consonant sounds.
    — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Elevate your soft pal-ate (the back of the roof of your mouth)and your uvula (the fleshy protrusion that hangs from your soft palate) while making the vowel sound a.
    — Paul Kita, Men's Health, 15 Dec. 2022

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