What is "vowels"

Usage examples of "vowels".

Made up of vowels and consonants, speech is not an undifferentiated outburst of sound.

When Eliza closes her eyes to spell, the inside of her head becomes an ocean of consonants and vowels, swirling and crashing in huge waves of letters until the word she wants begins to rise to the surface.

Elision of final vowels would probably be most common in the spoken language, and in poetry it may also be useful to be able to get rid of a syllable where the poetic meter demands it.

She could feel the different vowels in her marrow, her bones chimes through which the letters blew.

She will master the breaths, the vowels, and the movements attending these four simple letters, and then she will listen.

She begins to explore its combinations with her pen, chanting with the vowels Abulafia has taught her, his gift across time.

If you will merely give me your vowels tonight, I shall be happy to wait until such time as it is more convenient for you to settle your debt.

I shall allow Augusta to repay her debt, collect her vowels, and keep her pride intact.

You shall have your vowels back if you care to call on me two nights hence.

There was no telling what he would do with her vowels should she fail to show two nights hence.

Alarmed that they might not find her vowels after all, she swung around in agitation and nearly stumbled into the globe.

I came here to speak to him the morning after Augusta and I discovered her vowels in it.

He had a broad, brash smile and wavy blond hair and a soft accent that lengthened vowels and slurred final consonants.