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Vowel in sentence

7 examples of Vowel in a sentence

All we need is a few hours of speech from our surrogate talker, and as little as a vowel from our target talker, to create a unique vocal identity.
Do you want to buy a vowel, Barry?
My mouth had been a helmet forever greased with secrets, my mouth a dead-end street a little bit lit by teeth—my heart, a clam slammed shut at the bottom of a dark, but her mouth pulled up like a baby-blue Cadillac packed with canaries driven by a toucan—I swear those lips said bright wings when we kissed, wild and precise—as if she were teaching a seahorse to speak— her mouth so careful, chumming the first vowel from my throat until my brain was a piano banged loud, hammered like that— it was like, I swear her tongue was Saturn’s 7th moon— hot like that, hot and cold and circling, circling, turning me into a glad planet— sun on one side, night pouring her slow hand over the other: one fire flying the kite of another.
There will be people in the crowd with glasses and 1 vowel, or no glasses and 2 vowels.
(To speak more precisely, "twit" in this man's case should be spelled with an alternate vowel of the species "a.")
A widespread view is that Russia is simply reverting to type: freedom was never more than a fleeting vowel in its historical alphabet.
But on what possible basis can it be argued that the addition of a superfluous vowel made all the difference?