VOWEL in a Sentence

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For VOWEL, below is one of 8 sentences:
I rather fancied myself because I can pronounce twenty-four distinct vowel sounds; but your hundred and thirty beat me.

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 Meanings and Examples of VOWEL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
vowel
 n.  the sound of greatest sonority
Classic Sentence:
1  The vowel was so modified as to be indistinct.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
2  When he pronounces a soft O he protrudes his full carnal lips as if he kissed the vowel.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
3  I rather fancied myself because I can pronounce twenty-four distinct vowel sounds; but your hundred and thirty beat me.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
4  She spoke in the soft slurring voice of the coastal Georgian, liquid of vowels, kind to consonants and with the barest trace of French accent.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  As if I ever stop thinking about the girl and her confounded vowels and consonants.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
Example Sentence:
1  A vowel is a type of sound for which there is no closure of the throat or mouth at any point.
2  Compare the short vowel in 'full' and the long vowel in 'fool'.
3  A polar vortex, with its satisfyingly assonant vowels and crisp consonants, sounds like either a down coat made by Patagonia or an enormous luxury-brand SUV—that is, an expensive product meant to evoke the wilds but actually used by coddled suburbanites.