How to Use vowel in a Sentence

vowel

noun
  • Even the vowels are on the house.
    — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The vowels stretched in the same spots.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Was their dialect coach at war with vowels?
    — Betty Gilpin, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Some sang in close harmony, some sang long vowels, like a bed of strings.
    — National Geographic, 24 July 2019
  • Wheel of Fortune is ready to take a new vowel salesman for a spin.
    — Vulture, 27 June 2023
  • Instruments are played to match the French vowel sounds of the text.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2021
  • The sheet also includes data like how many vowels the day’s word had.
    — Saira Mueller, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Same glottal stops, same consonants, a lot of the same vowels.
    — Tomris Laffly, IndieWire, 20 June 2024
  • Women’s names, for instance, are longer, and are more likely to end in a vowel sound.
    — Lisa Ward, WSJ, 21 May 2021
  • 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
  • If a sound segment consisted of just one vowel, the time after the beat was quite short.
    — Catherine Matacic, Science | AAAS, 24 Apr. 2018
  • 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 second option for the same vowel appears instead in words like hour, shout and found.
    — Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
  • But with the short vowels (bit or bet), the uh goes after the original vowel.
    — Annie Joy Williams, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2026
  • There’s a muffled quality to the voice, and all his vowels seem to bend in the middle.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Sadly, though, French has changed my vowels and endo has changed my bowels.
    — Kristina Kasparian, Longreads, 6 Feb. 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 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
  • In today’s Hollywood, the wrong vowel can cost you the role.
    — Remy Blumenfeld, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • In humans, vowels are produced by vocal folds, which vibrate fast.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Blues left me with 128 remaining words and one vowel in yellow.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • The moment a machine takes over the vowels, the performance stops being yours.
    — Remy Blumenfeld, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The singing of Latin brought purer vowels into the King’s sound, which was pleasing.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Who has the most wins while barefoot and with three or more tattoos and a first name that ends in a consonant but a last name that ends in a vowel?
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
  • 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 tongues of native New Yorkers land heavy on consonants, and on vowels, too.
    — Mark Warren, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2017
  • 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
  • In the case of was, wand, wash and the rest, what has happened is that the /w/ rounded the following vowel, and also dragged it backwards in the mouth.
    — Literary Hub, 25 June 2026

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