Sentence examples for single consonant from inspiring English sources

Can a short vowel be followed by a single consonant?

Arabic words always start with a single consonant followed by a vowel, and long vowels are rarely followed by more than a single consonant.

In initial position, Eskimo uses only a single consonant; between vowels at most two.

The slow, subdued (though amplified), almost static work is essentially a single consonant chord sustained over 45 minutes.

The Irish island with its single consonant gave us Aran sweaters and, in Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran, a memorable early documentary.

That single consonant on their mail – "Y" as opposed to "J" – seems to keep people from making that 15-minute trek to Newark.

Lengthening and subsequent development into diphthongs of accented vowels may be linked to the reduction of Latin doubled consonants to single consonants, as some theories suggest.

In languages of both groups, these verbs have characteristic affixes: either single consonants, which are known as consonantal augments (as when *bu- 'hit, kill' becomes *bu-m); case suffixes, such as the dative case marker *-ku and the accusative case marker *-n(a); and personal pronouns, such as first person singular *ŋay.

Orm's chief innovation was to employ doubled consonants to show that the preceding vowel is short and single consonants when the vowel is long (Treharne 2000, p. 273).

In the N-back, single consonants were randomly presented.

For single consonants, and were chosen both in the speed and accuracy analysis.