Antonym: consonant. Similar words: avowed, bowel, towel, dowel, do well, bowels, trowel, tea towel. Meaning: ['vaʊəl] 
n. 1. a speech sound made with the vocal tract open 2. a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel.
n. 1. a speech sound made with the vocal tract open 2. a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel. 
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1. A short vowel is a short sound as in the word 'cup'.
2. Use 'an' before words beginning with a vowel.
3. Each language has a different vowel system.
4. This neutral vowel is known as "schwa".
5. A long vowel is a long sound as in the word'shoe ".
6. A diphthong is a vowel made up of two sounds.
7. an FM radio. U is a vowel but begins with / j / and so you say:a UN declaration.
8. Some English vowel sounds which are not given weight in speech become reduced to a rather formless central vowel.
9. Compare the short vowel in 'full' and the long vowel in 'fool'.
10. The vowel in words like "my" and "thigh" is not very difficult.
11. The vowel sound in 'caught' is long; in 'cot' it is short.
12. Hebrew is written in consonants without vowel indications.
13. Figure 3.6 Percentage low vowel in all other disyllables.
14. For many outer-city and middle-class speakers, a raised vowel is already categorical in all environments.
15. Figure 3.5 Percentage low vowel in variable monosyllables and prefixed and inflected disyllables.
16. These often involve vowel sounds having their Creole rather than their expected London pronunciations.
17. Do vowel and consonant sounds pattern or cluster in particular ways?
18. They haven't written an original word, or vowel, ha ha ha!
19. His diction, even if some of the vowel sounds are a shade tight, is also exemplary.
20. The student was practising making a new vowel sound.
20. Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.
21. A vowel can form a syllable by itself.
22. Some words have a vowel sound that's completely eliminated.
23. Diaresis: Two dots over a vowel to indicate stress.
24. And all his fans can rest assured that even a vowel change won't fool us.
25. The verb is longer but unambiguous, a demonstrative moment as the tongue flicks anxiously away from the palate to release the vowel.
26. Some phonologists maintain that a syllabic consonant is really a case of a vowel and a consonant that have become combined.
27. Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry. Bill Cosby 
28. Much of the easy flow of speech depends on the neutral vowel.
29. In some accents - particularly London ones - we often find a close back rounded vowel instead.
30. A whole chunk of the sound has been omitted, and the vowel is entirely wrong.