Meanings of long vowel in English

It's a long vowel sound, and honestly, who has time for that in a city that boasts 403 different bars?

The long vowel of the word resonated in Ayla's ear with intensified vibrations, and then she was moving again, streaking over the plains.

In Latin, poetry was scanned by marking long vowels and short.

Brennan, you have news? Blythe Hallis's overly long vowels glided like silk across the line.

Over dinner for a thousand in an adjacent tent, long vowels competed with Texan accents.

The development of symbols for the long vowels e and o was also the work of the Ionians.

Waatea News reports macrons - which indicate long vowels - have recently been added to the New Zealand registry of Internet addresses.

The difference consists, not so much in idiom or vocabulary, as in pronunciation-especiallyin the pronunciation of the long vowels and diphthongs.

He said something that sounded like water running down a mountain, all long vowels and fast slippery S's broken up by harder consonants.

[Transcriber's note: In the print book, the word Pegana is spelled with a macron ( long vowel symbol) over the first "a".