DISCORD in sample sentences - sense 2: as in: discordant music

Once I could have enjoyed it and seen nothing out of the way about it, but now its note was discordant.

Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

the nervous twanging and discord of untuned violins

F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise

...a discordant ensemble of sirens intruded upon the general din of the Iranian street scene.

Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter

I learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant hymns.

Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club

the screams and bangs and all the discordant sounds of the battle

J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Their voices were horribly shrill and discordant.

Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray

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...like a bad smell or a discordant sound;

Ivan Turgenev -- Fathers and Sons

diverse discordant sounds of disorder

Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace

To show himself independent of me, he would start and stagger through with his hymn in the most discordant manner.

Frederick Douglass -- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

It is the lark that sings so out of tune,
Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.

William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

...the bats’ discordant concerts of squeaking and chattering.

Yann Martel -- Life of Pi

the hideous and discordant din that resounded from every corner of the market

Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist

It struck a shrill, discordant note.

Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca

However, as they had left their cars blocking the road, a harsh, discordant din from those in the rear had been audible for some time, and added to the already violent confusion of the scene.

F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

...adding their discordant national anthems to the racket.

J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

ventured again to open his discordant throat

James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans

After that the only sound was the discordant music of the dwarves honing their blades.

Christopher Paolini -- Eldest

The window went up, a maid-servant’s discordant voice profaned the holy calm, and a deluge of water drenched the prone martyr’s remains!

Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

I shivered violently, and shouted again—rather discordantly.

H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine

...as if every letter were a musical note and any words spoken without love were a discord in the melody.

Cornelia Funke -- Inkheart

Somebody blew a discordant bugle.

Michael Shaara -- The Killer Angels

At length the jays arrive, whose discordant screams were heard long before,

Henry David Thoreau -- Walden

the musical riches of the epoch were displayed in a magnificent discord.

Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Private Carr, Private Compton and Cissy Caffrey pass beneath the windows, singing in discord.

James Joyce -- Ulysses

But, her repetition of these words seemed to strike with some little discord on his ear.

Charles Dickens -- Hard Times

raising their voices in a discordant melody

Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr

A discordant chanting began.

H.G. Wells -- The Island of Dr. Moreau

...he felt inclined to make the piano shriek in utter discord.

George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss

The stream hummed a song, seemingly musical at times, and then discordant and dull,

Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest

a strange and discordant sound

James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pathfinder

there was a discordant blast

Zane Grey -- The Border Legion

His thoughts were shattered by the sound of a distant horn—a discordant note that wrenched him from his reverie.

Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge

Aunt Mill faltered and subsided, leaving a cracked high note bleeding on the air. Sheb struck a discord and halted.

Stephen King -- The Gunslinger

...harp out of his pocket and began to extract doleful discords from it,

Zane Grey -- The Heritage of the Desert

...the crack of Winchesters had the discordance of a nightmare.

Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd

discordant laugh

James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pioneers

discordant music

Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars

The sound was harsh, a discordant clanging that caused Madam Petra to rise again from her chair and walk to a window along the southern wall.

Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom

Discordant bells clanged...

Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

To keep our morale up, we sang with discordant enthusiasm.

Homer Hickam -- October Sky

As she rocked her little ones, the mother hummed in a discordant voice...

Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables

a discordant melody

Edgar Allan Poe -- The Fall of the House of Usher

Then she hastily blundered into the opening bars of "Jacket of Gray" and stopped with a discord as she remembered how heartrending that selection was too.

Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind

he made a deep rumbling noise like a discord on a great organ

J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Two Towers

discordant sounds

James Fenimore Cooper -- The Deerslayer

It clattered as the board lit up with incoming calls that made no connections, answered only with discordant hums.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity