vowel
vowelly
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a word derived from
vowel.
Example Sentences
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At times she would actually substitute nonsense syllables for a song’s text, when she appeared to feel that the words as written, with their congestion of consonants, would impede the flow of pure, vowelly sound.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2018
“You can hear a million insects,” he said, in his vowelly Dutch accent.
From The New Yorker ● May 16, 2016
His exquisite ear had felt the melody of the vowelly and voluble stanza of Italy, and to which he even added a grace of his own by a new measure, in the Alexandrine 476 close.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
The dialect is exquisitely soft and vowelly; and then the frequent repetition of many words, from the want of copiousness, renders it susceptible of being delivered with the most inconceivable rapidity.
From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
He designed to relieve the ear from the clash of supernumerary consonants, and to liquify by a vowelly confluence.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
