How To Use Vow In A Sentence

After blending consonants and vowels, syllables are blended into words and words are used in meaningful sentences.
The prototypical noun may be (though need not be) quite long, stress will fall early in the word, the stressed vowel will be non-front, and the final consonant (if an obstruent) will be voiceless.
Palatalized and plain consonants do not contrast in words with non-pharyngeal vowels.
He and Barton were now called upon for their names, and in return, we were favoured with the liquid and vowelly appellatives, by which our ingenuous and communicative acquaintances were respectively designated. The Island Home
I let the word tumble out of my mouth as I made a vow to stay aware of what I was saying. Good Fortune

Italian is rich in broad open vowels and liquid consonants.
So, while not disavowing the memo should your Democratic staff on the select committee be taking that as a straightforward admonition?
He vowed to continue to expose overspending. The Sun
A City priest vowed yesterday that he is no longer willing to turn the other cheek and tolerate the repeated acts of wanton vandalism to the windows of the presbytery which is also his home.
Because the learner has become competent with the short vowels, consonants, and consonant blends, he or she can now concentrate on mastering the long-vowel spelling forms.
Founded exactly 25 years ago, this group of ostentatious do-gooders vow ‘to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt’.
So he vowed to fight for a fitting memorial to be erected to them. The Sun
The president talked up the tax cut deal, talked up the one-year expensing of depreciable assets, vowed to veto any bill with earmarks, talked about cutting corporate tax rates, talked about streamlining government, even talked up medical malpractice reform. Love Train In The House!
Mugabe vowed he would not "succumb" to pressure to enter into dialogue with the MDC. ANC Daily News Briefing
The "aa" means that you hold the vowel sound for two beats as opposed to one. Arabic for Dummies
None of us can vow to be perfect. In the end all we can do is promise to love each other with everything we've got. Because love's the best thing we do.
I learned the word dépanneur 'convenience store'; I heard the affricated d and t; I did not notice the tense/lax vowels or the -tu questions; I did notice the contractions (chais &c) and a feature nobody mentioned in the comments, the raising of nasalized vowels: vent sounded almost like vin (with /æ/ as in hat), and vin had a high [e] and sounded diphthongized ([veiN]) -- in fact, one guy said matin so that it struck my ears as [matiN]. Languagehat.com: MONTREAL 2.
He sounds like an actor with a vowelly shopping-mall accent, and I never fully believed him.
The strict regime of the marriage vows broke my marriage and my husband became a person who seemed to change overnight.
Just before he was guillotined he made a speech vowing that he would return from the dead to punish his captors.
This is not a season for experimental fiction, such as the book by that Canadian bloke in which each chapter uses only one vowel. Times, Sunday Times
A woman who watched her frail mother lie in agony after she developed bedsores at a private care home has vowed to help prevent elderly and immobile patients from having to endure the same pain.
After wooing the Eastleigh audience with another blockbusting performance, the veteran entertainer vowed to fans that he would be back again next year.
Let everie sound of a pitch keep still in reson-ance, jemcrow, jackdaw, prime and secund with their terce that whoe betwides them, now full theorbe, now dulcifair, and when we press of pedal (sof!) pick out and vowelise your name. Finnegans Wake
Funny, it is generally accepted as the height of sociolinguistic sophistication to shift the shiftable aspects of your speech (vowel quality being a prime example) in the direction of the speech of those you are speaking to.
the vowellike nature of `r'
But with the U.S. Federal Reserve's recently announced avowal of easy monetary policy causing the dollar to flirt with its record low against the yen, Japan's government is turning an increasingly stern eye toward its own central bank for further monetary easing to counter the U.S. action. Pressure Mounts on BOJ to Weaken Yen After U.S. Criticism of Intervention
History as necromancy is avowed in the Preface to Life of Notes on 'Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality'
Just two years ago, she had one of her legs amputated as a consequence of a rare form of cancer, but vowed it would be no bar to living a full life.
Almost six months ago, foreign-policy macher Perle vowed to sue him for writing an unflattering feature about him in The New Yorker.
If there is a perception that the elite end of the game has sometimes become estranged from the volunteers that drive the grassroots, Steele has vowed to bring them back together, using the prize of a home World Cup as the driving force. 2015 will offer us an opportunity in three areas. England can win 2015 World Cup, says RFU chief executive John Steele
Maybe there are general relationship issues you need to sort out too but your marriage vows mean something. The Sun
The Law of Replevins. difclaimer to any avowry on the ftatutc of H. 8. — becaufe the avowry on the aft is not on any perfon certaiW, but on lands with - in the lord's fee and feigniory; and there - fore whoever takes up the defence to fuch avowry muft be only a perfon concerned The law and practice of distresses and replevin;
She is bound to the rules and the choir, but not to the private recitation of the Divine Office; she can take part in chapters, except in those in which others are admitted to vows; she cannot be elected superior, mother-vicaress, mistress of novices, assistant, counsellor, or treasurer. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
His voice is also surprisingly cultured, far more so in many ways than Jagger's flattened vowels.
Paul vowed in an interview with The Hill last month that as chairman he would shine a light on the Fed's policies, which he called opaque and destructive. HUFFPOST HILL - Senate FAIL
They vowed to stick by one another no matter what happened.
A false friend is worse than an avowed enemy.
I would suggest that this cultural fantasy is the symptom of one model for male creativity - the desire to disavow woman's essential Lack by fetishizing an ordinary object.
A certain Goodsir Canty's cornhouse stood near them in a clump of trees beside the road, and as the door was open they crept in, gulped down great "chunks" of cake, distributed vast slices of what was left about their persons, Obed taking by far the lion's share, and then they parted, vowing eternal secrecy. Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
At last he suffered vows to be put up for his good journey and safe return, insomuch that he was called jocosely by the name of Callipides, who is famous in a Greek proverb, for being in a great hurry to go forward, but without ever advancing a cubit. De vita Caesarum
Moreover the chancellor of the exchequer saw before him an inevitable addition of ten millions of pounds sterling to his budget, the only avowable reason for which was the rectification of the Canadian frontier. Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII
He then requests the ten basic vows of a novice monk and repeats each as it is recited to him.
But he's pushing ahead: On Wednesday, Mr. Anwar vowed to run for parliament "imminently" in a by-election, with the aim of toppling the government by September. It's Déjà Vu for Malaysia's Opposition Leader
I said my vows a bit too loud and they seemed to echo round the light oak panelling of the room.
With the _f_, the tone must be there already, _before_ I have pronounced it; to pass from the _f_ to the _r_ I must summon to my aid the auxiliary vowel _oo_, in order to prevent the formation of any unvocalized interstices in the sound. How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst]
When we were Middlesex teammates, he vowed that he wanted to play for England, and he was ready to listen, learn and put in the hard work to turn his dreams into a reality.
The Golden language we were sent to analyze -- we call it Moth because there's a chunk in the name that sounds like 'moth' -- that Golden language has vowels and consonants too. Analog Science Fiction and Fact
There were the Knights of the Round Table, vowed to the highest ideals of chivalry, and the greatest of them, Sir Lancelot, who, of course, has a tragic love affair with the Queen.
He dies, vowing vengeance upon Rome, and sending messages to Queen Elizabeth, "whom God hath bless'd for hating papistry. Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
He placed his right hand over his heart and said in a clear and forceful voice, "I, Elslow Kent Hampton, give you my loyalty and vow on this day nare to betray you. Gentle Warrior
Asean finance ministers vow to avoid overheating, but remain mute on yuan ASEAN finance ministers have vowed to co-ordinate policies to avoid economic overheating in the fast-growing region, following a semi-annual gathering dominated political tension in Thailand and the avoidance of any criticism of China's currency management. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
“Actually, I’ve been known to be witty for a full ten minutes,” Gawain avowed with a lift of his eyebrows. DIALOGUE • by Resha Caner
Such disavowals always remind me of Henry Kissinger's line that when a state denies it intends to take a course of action, it is signalling to others that it has the capacity to take such action if it wishes.
He took a vow to abstain from alcohol/smoking/sex.
He vows to defy the logic of time and arrange the course of history according to his liking.
The children were asked to match speech sounds to written consonants and vowels, and they practiced related skills.
A BRITISH company has vowed not to drill for oil in a national park home to critically endangered mountain gorillas. The Sun
He again avows his special love of democracy: ‘I have been democratically elected to public office.’
A day after unveiling his campaign on a new website, Emanuel hit the streets vowing to "hear from Chicagoans – in blunt and honest terms" about what they want from their next mayor. Rahm Emanuel Snubs Pilsen Sit-In Protesters During 'Listening Tour'
They betokened their fidelity to the leader with a vow.
Residents -- whether for the purposes unblushingly avowed by that sometime favourite of the stage, Mr. Eccles, or for the reasons less horrifying to the United Kingdom Alliance -- found themselves more at home in "Caesarea" than in "Sarnia," and the "five-pounder," as the summer tripper was despiteously called by natives, liked to go as far as he could for his money, and found St. Helier's "livelier" than A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
Tom Goldstein, dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where impressionable novitiates are prepared for the high calling of the Fourth Estate, avowed that Wright was just ‘a corporate citizen’ doing his job.
Eight and a half years ago, when the oncological bookmakers gave my father three years to live, we sat together in his hospital room and vowed that, if he survived, the two of us would take a trip each year to celebrate his outliving his expiration date by another twelvemonth. Joshuah Bearman: Travels with Wells Tower, or Another Reason Why Magazines Should Hire More Fiction Writers
You don't have to parse the sentences or measure vowel formants or anything time consuming, so the empirical part of the research just took a few minutes.
Like its predecessors, the novel comes dripping in satire, but this time of a more avowedly self-reflexive nature. The Times Literary Supplement
Opponents in Parliament, which has to vote on the measure, vowed to fight it tooth and nail.
We vow to return on the train and try out the ‘twobicles’ - the double thrones in the ladies toilets - or be arrested in the attempt.
Indeed, Moulsworth vows to transmute the faulty model provided by the Biblical Martha, the archetypal busy housewife: Moulsworth plans to "dight" (or make ready) her "Inward house" (l. 19) and thus prepare an appropriate habitation for Christ. My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
And we gave H.O. some of the hardbake, to make it easier for him to keep his vow. The Story of the Treasure Seekers
Write yourself a script and vow to use it! 50 Ways to Become a Self-Confident Woman
Israel, at Sinai, vowed to present the first-born of their males and their first-fruits to the Lord; and that vow they homologated when they Covenanted again. The Ordinance of Covenanting
The claimed derivation is from an obsolete word (in Latin) "feo" = "to bring forth", where the eo became the œ ligature (perhaps because the EO combination really was a single vowel in old english, including runes!) which then became separate letters O and E because of typesetting issues. Pharyngula
A woman who watched her frail mother lie in agony after she developed bedsores at a private care home has vowed to help prevent elderly and immobile patients from having to endure the same pain.
The board disavowed the action of the executive.
I cannot recall the avowal of my earnest and deep attachment to you, and I do not recall it. ' Our Mutual Friend
Providence; a vow unalterable and imprescriptible, which unites man in society to his country and his sovereign. A Philosophical Dictionary
I was cheating Jinna out of something, not by denying her a false avowal of love, but by accommodating our attraction. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
The counter-demonstrators, a self-avowed violent anti-Klan group, consisted of young blacks and Hispanics from the inner city.
However, he ventured to guess that no one would state that they wanted to give up the search since Alex had made it blatantly obvious that every word of their vow would be broken.
The reason that I bothered with the argument of vowelless [mz] being pronounceable is simply that I do, in fluent speech, usually produce the vowelless [mz], and therefore wanted to explain the more objectionable position, figuring the vowelled pronunciation of Ms. could defend itself. “Ms.”-ing the point « Motivated Grammar
The first Buddhist bhikkhunis were originally Jain ascetics and much of the Jain terminology came into the bhikkhuni vow texts. A Summary Report of the 2007 International Congress on the Women's Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages �� Part Two: Day One
After the churches themselves passed out of private hands, the advowsons tended to remain with the heirs.
Mr.R. M.T. Hunter, an avowed bimetallist, in a report to the United States Senate, said: Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
The manager also looked to the future with a vow to continue improving despite the loss of such an influential player. Times, Sunday Times
Is it so difficult to wait until you are out of the register office to exchange some home-made vows and a selection of inspiring hymeneal ditties?
So, without preconceptions, this is a brisk, well-balanced, fruit forward, but still avowedly savoury wine, that would be a piquant pairing with the crisp, dry snap of well grilled salmon cutlets - a texture lost in pan frying.
She had the fluting vowels of one of the eastern suburbs ' private schools. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
This good fortune is attributed to the owner, Mrs. Viola Vickham, an avowed Francophobe who refused to buy or serve any French imports, including the infamous "adverse cam(em)ber(t). Archive 2006-08-01
Thus, in one place we have the following avowal, which is only not _naïf_ because evidently put in to please the prejudices of sympathetically narrow readers. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
A triphthong is PROPER if all three of the vowels are sounded. Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois
You can hear him drawing breath - tiny gasps during "Bloom," big gulpy lungfuls during "Morning Mr. Magpie" - but he exhales the same as ever: in a mumbly, monochromatic moan where the vowels are dramatic and the consonants are tough to make out. Album review: Radiohead, "The King of Limbs"
There are various categories of this: rhyming, exact and ablaut (vowel substitution).
Mr Williams praised the Gardaí but vowed not to be intimidated by those in the criminal underworld who he has been exposing for more than a decade.
Did a lot of * nudge, nudge* with the wife during the vows. Grouse Diary Entry
Obama is not an "avowed" Marxist and I'll bet next month's rent that you cannot define Marxism. How a capital gains tax break could get cash to startups
_Sybils_; and bid him mind the antiqueness of the work: the more she commended it, the more he liked it, and told her, she must let him call it his: she told him, he would give it away to the next commender: he vowed he would not: she told him then he should not only call it his, but it should in reality be so; and he vowed it should be the last thing he would part with in the world. Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
Though he seemed to relish Korea, on April 10 he bought a one-way ticket back to the United States, vowing not to return to the peninsula.
Matrimonial vows are to show the faithfulness of the new couple.
And they have hammered at the ballooning US national debt and what they described as runaway government spending, vowing to cut taxes and rein in Washington. Canada.com Top Stories
I have never, for instance, heard a speaker of English condemn the nasal vowels or the dropped consonants of the French language.
THE chaos in debt-laden Greece deepened yesterday as unions vowed to fight government cuts. The Sun
Thanks to changes in the tax law engineered when another avowedly pro-business Democrat, Bill Clinton, was president, U.S. multinational financial companies can avoid taxes on their international scams. Robert Scheer: Obama's Fatal Addiction
Canadian back vowels are pronounced with the tongue bunched slightly.
Well the epenthetic vowel might not even be the most correct name for it, since it clearly is a phoneme. I tripped over Pre-IE the other day
Another group of monasteries grew up around friars who although taking the triple vow of poverty, chastity, and obedience were mendicants who moved about the country using any house of their own order as a base.
She drew herself up like a queen, but only that she might look queenlier for his sake, and, bending, kissed his brow, and whispered back his vows. A Mountain Woman
If you pronounce the vowel in bit with your lips rounded, you may approach it. Exploring language (6th edn)
A tilde over the vowel indicates a high broken tone, in which the voice starts slightly above the middle of the normal speaking voice range, drops and then rises abruptly.
“Hear, King Moloch!” called Hasdrubal, lifting his swarthy arms to heaven, then striking them with his sword till the blood gushed down, “suffer us to escape this calamity and I vow thee even my daughter Tibaït, — a child in her tenth year, — she shall die in thy holy furnace a sacrifice.” A Victor of Salamis
But the vow of a widow or of a woman divorced, no man had power to disallow of, for her estate was free from controlment" (Klein 50). My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
_ (c) _ In stressed diphthongs and triphthongs only the vowels receiving the stress assonate, as in _vale, aire Modern Spanish Lyrics
The president vowed to clarify the situation next month. The Sun
But the mestizoes, Spanish in their contempt for the Indians, and Indian in their hatred which they had vowed against the Spaniards, burned with both these vivid and impassioned sentiments. The Pearl of Lima A Story of True Love
They remembered their Ruskinian youth, and the confidence with which they would once have condemned it; and they had a sense of recreance in now admiring it; but they certainly admired it, and it remained for them the supreme expression of that time-soul, mundane, courtly, aristocratic, flattering, which once influenced the art of the whole world, and which had here so curiously found its apotheosis in a city remote from its native place and under a rule sacerdotally vowed to austerity. Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 3
He vowed to become more loving, more inspiring, more impactful in his life, especially to his family.
The President vowed on Saturday to hold his besieged capital against rebels pressing hard from the outskirts.
However, the Hebrew script is not a pure abjad, either, and the characters alef, he, vav, and yod are sometimes (in the case of vav and yod, frequently) used to represent vowels. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
I grew up in Maine and used to vow that I would not set my stories there because I didnt want to be pegged as a Maine writer; for whatever reason, I was afraid of being thought of as a regionalist. Jan Elizabeth Watson - An interview with author
The new policy sets no time limit but vows to continue monetary easing until inflation has been firmly established above 2 per cent. Times, Sunday Times
There has been no such avowal, openly or otherwise, from the center-right or right to discredit theleft. The Volokh Conspiracy » Faisal Shahzad Allegedly Admits to Attempted Times Square Bombing
Probably more people would marry if the vows included `I don't think so. SUMMER OF SECRETS
Vowed to take better care of your finances, bought one of those little red cashflow books, ruled into narrow blue feint columns, pledged to note in it your incomings and outgoings, create for yourself a budget?
Associated Press Writers = KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban vowed Sunday to attack polling places in Sept. 18 parliamentary elections, warning Afghans not to participate in what it called a sham vote. The Guardian World News
1 Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Rather, my instinct is telling me that the "ablautless" forms are coloured by uvulars, hence *-a-, and that ablauting forms stem from a lengthened Narten present, *ɢēb- or *gʰēbʰ- in traditional notation, since it's already been established by other IEists that long vowels are not affected by laryngeal colouring and thus, by extension, they wouldn't be affected by uvular colouring. PIE *kap- and *ghabh-
Togolese Colonel Yark Damehane has accused the 'Movement citoyen pour l'alternance' or Citizens's Movement for Change to which the youths belong of inciting citizens to violence as it vows to use "any means" in order disrupt the polls nationwide. AllAfrica News: Latest
On the other hand, in some regions of the US caught and cot are distinct in pronunciation (typically with a rounded vowel in the first and an unrounded vowel in the second).
It is that time of the year when marriage vows are reviewed and hung in the balance, weighted against the opening line and the TV clicker soldered to one's palm.
I made a silent vow to be more careful in the future.
All members were to take the three traditional monastic vows.
I can still hear his rhythmic South American accent in my mind - soft ‘r's, long vowels - and see him punctuating his words with his hands.
The Social Democratic Party has vowed to try to stall the bill until the current session ends.
Tell you the truth, and I must be careful because Professor Froomkin will certainly disemvowel me if I go to far, but let me tell you, young'un: Discourse.net: Harsh But Fair?
NEW YORK - Wendy's new CEO on Monday called the dour results of the past few years "self-inflicted wounds" and vowed to do better, laying... The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Outside the court Ahktar, who is also a taxi driver, vowed he would continue with his political career.
Agreement may be achievable only by formulas so vague as to invite later disavowal or disagreement.
She entered the novitiate soon after her baptism and pronounced her final vows on September 19, 1699.
They who had practised penances and observed excellent vows for amrita now seemed to be eager seekers after amrita (celestial ambrosia). The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva
And he vowed City will not change their football philosophy despite their poor run. The Sun
It's all very incongruous coming from the mouth of a titled man whose toffee vowels are drawn out like a penny chew.
Its strength is not disavowed by its disparate and often contrary nature.
He has vowed to oversee the elections impartially.
Are men now prepared openly to avow their bisexuality?
A solemn vow, the most immense assertion of the will that any person makes in the course of a lifetime. Times, Sunday Times
Being ambivalent herself, Vowell agrees this might be what attracts her to Canada.
As an artist, he has knowingly signed forged drawings and disavows responsibility for his sometimes salacious subject matter.
He is battling a very serious blood disorder called amyloidosis and has vowed to beat it, although it is not a curable condition at present. Just a Round-Up...
While the consonant cards each represent a single letter, the vowel cards give a choice of two vowels and the wild cards represent any letter.
A couple have vowed not to be pushed out of their own street by gangs of youths they say have made their lives a misery for years.
Trimble, who said he felt euphoric after the result, vowed to try to persuade all sections of the party to support him.
In contrast, vowel letters are never omitted from words in text.
I cannot recall the avowal of my earnest and deep attachment to you, and I do not recall it.’ Our Mutual Friend
Students in the low-level group were not reading words but were learning letter names and sounds, and how to blend consonant and vowel sounds to make syllables.
The two exchanged vows in front of a justice of the peace at New York City Hall today.
Kenworthy hated him for his spoken English, his meticulous vowels so cloyingly off-beam. DISPLACED PERSON
The monks also take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Times, Sunday Times
The diphthongs ayyy and eeee turn up again and again, long vowels lengthened by slow consonants around them.
He's not going to 'disavow' it, whatever that means in this context. Is Bobby Jindal -- Who May Be On McCain's Veep Shortlist -- An Exorcist?
You haue bin in Ireland, knowe partlie the Irish con - dition; this is a verie tractable fellowe, and yet of a bardie and stout corage; I am perswaded he is very honest, es - pecially he makes great conscience of his promise and vowe. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Her husband disavowed her after 30 years of marriage and six children
I love the parallel nuttiness of the denotations and the curiously balanced and opposed vowel sounds that follow.
GCHQ's cover was blown by Time Out in 1976, but it was only officially "avowed" in 1982 when Geoffrey Prime, a former linguist at GCHQ, was jailed for 38 years for passing secrets to the Russians over a 14-year period. Not so secret: deal at the heart of UK-US intelligence
I'll hand in my membership card and become a monk, take the vow and never return.
A failed school teacher who became Minister of Education; a one-time Methodist minister turned avowed atheist.
With much foreboding from the other characters as to how the disaster has altered the healthy course of her mind, she commits herself to the path of revenge and vows to regain their inheritance from her bitter uncle or his invalid son. Wilkie Collins’ No Name « Tales from the Reading Room
The formal part of the wedding (the vows and rings) came first, and the usual particulars of evensong followed - Rose responses, a psalm to Anglican chant, Gibbons Second Service canticles, and a few hymns.
I was cheating Jinna out of something, not by denying her a false avowal of love, but by accommodating our attraction. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
So when all 60 of us were going off to university or college or to a job, we vowed that nothing would change and left blessed with the sheen of invincibility, yearbooks tucked under untucked shirts, without looking back.
These vowels have little if any constriction in the vocal tract and so the lateral before these vowels takes on the ‘default’ alveolar articulation.
How many pure, uncombined, vowels are there in General American speech?
One could wonder how an account of the logic or the consistency of concepts might be described as avowedly optimistic. 'Liberal Nationalism'
Voiced sounds such as vowels and certain consonants such as b, d, and g require vibration of the vocal folds, while voiceless sounds such as the consonants p, t, and k require the vocal folds to be wide apart.
Many big banks have put on a hiring freeze and vowed to trim existing staff.
It's more likely, however, that you will vow to defend heavy sponge cake and good old-fashioned unironic jam. Times, Sunday Times
The new batch have vowed to clean up politics in the wake of the expenses scandal. Times, Sunday Times
Julia Child was a larger than life figure: tall, gangling, rollickingly posh with an extraordinary voice that swooped and swelled and swarmed over its plummy vowels. A Passion for Life « Tales from the Reading Room
She vowed if it was humanly possible, no other patient would suffer a similar fate through lack of a suitable donor.
If you pronounce the vowel in bit with your lips rounded, you may approach it. Exploring language (6th edn)
A long vowel is a long sound as in the word'shoe ".
Pundits say Drobac is a long shot at best, but the cash-strapped challenger vows to defy the oddsmakers.
The first small problem with the Reuters article is that the usual spelling for the language is ‘Pirahã’, with a tilde over the final /a/, indicating that the vowel is nasalized.
So I said hello and on the way to the car I vowed to never speak again except via my laptop, because I am obviously nothing but a bumbling doofus who should remain locked inside away from normal people.
You know, it was bad enough when I thought you were another Shadowhunter and youd turned your back on her because of some stupid Shadowhunter vow or something, but now I know youre just a slimy Downworlder who didnt even care that all those years she treated you like a friendlike an equaland this is how you paid her back! Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
_ (d) _ In unstressed diphthongs and triphthongs only the strong vowels assonate, as in _turba, lluvia (ú-a), licencia, quisierais (é-a), pido, continuo (í-o) _. Modern Spanish Lyrics
Br Dennis Murphy has just completed his novice year at the Dominicans and took his first vows of poverty, chastity and obedience this Wednesday.
The accent circumflex can be applied to upper - and lower-case vowels. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 614
The other characteristic feature, which Frisian has carried on a step farther than English, is the assibilation of velars before front vowels.
I strongly believe that until the breakdown of his marriage he had been true to his wedding vows.
But far from being examined - let alone disavowed - the policies behind these developments are being redoubled.
Nor is he is a Christ figure, despite the eager (by mystics) or outraged (by Marxists) avowals to that effect during the Soviet era.
For example, no child read pharbid, a word containing both a vowel r pattern and a consonant digraph not taught in tutoring, correctly at pre- or post-test.
For a young pilot who had not yet taken vows to rebuff his Lord Pilot was unheard of. THE BROKEN GOD
I don't expect to keep all five vows but, say, three out of five would be good enough.
They made vows of eternal friendship to each other.
Basil's lips in spite of a vow he had just taken not to say anything that should "aggravate" his hostess, who was in a state of tension it was not difficult to detect. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II)
The collapse of the British Empire, which Winston Churchill had vowed to defend at all costs, opened the way to worldwide decolonization.
This I vow in full knowledge of my sins of pride and vanity and lustfulness, and of those sins known and unknown of my husband, and those too of my boy.
Again, he vows to do penance by marrying Elizabeth and accepting her illegitimate son.
You'd have to be very unobservant not to have noticed that there are an awful lot of bloggers with an avowedly (and sometimes aggressively) libertarian political philosophy.

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