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full and deep sounding- The candidate discussed weighty matters in rich, sonorous tones.
sonorous = (of sound:) full and deep
- I prefer traditional sonorous chords to the dissonant chords with which she likes to experiment.
- The silence was broken by the village crier beating his sonorous ogene.Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
- ...while the voice died in sonorous echoes between the walls.William Faulkner -- The Sound and the Fury
- A sonorous voice said, "Welcome to Jurassic Park."Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
- Gitl began reciting the Kaddish, rocking back and forth on the sleeping shelf with the sonorous words, and the prayer was like the tolling of a death bell.Jane Yolen -- The Devils Arithmetic
- Soon Art's sonorous breathing rumbled out of sync with her frustration, and she lay wide-eyed in the dark.Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
- In the morning I was awakened by the sonorous voice of my companion ringing in my ears and bidding me rise.Melville, Herman -- Typee
- "My friends," said D'Herblay, in a grave and sonorous voice, ...Dumas, Alexandre -- The Man in the Iron Mask
- The note became more rapid, more sonorous.Pater, Walter Horatio -- The Guardian
- Bhaer laughed his sonorous laugh, and Jo cried out, with a scandalized face.Alcott, Louisa May -- Little Women
- a herald chosen for his sonorous voice
- Mousqueton was a Norman, whose pacific name of Boniface his master had changed into the infinitely more sonorous name of Mousqueton.Dumas, Alexandre -- The Three Musketeers
- in a voice of sonorous complaint on the instant of his rising.Dickens, Charles -- Bleak House
- And he ended his speech with the sonorous cry of his craft.McSpadden, J. Walker -- Robin Hood
- Twelve times did the iron register of time beat on the sonorous bell-metal, summoning the ghosts to rise and walk their nightly round.Fielding, Henry -- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- At this moment Diana joined in the conversation by a sonorous barking.Verne, Jules -- Round The Moon
- This rare specimen of eloquence terminated with the following sonorous phrases bubbling over with patriotism:Verne, Jules -- Five Weeks in a Balloon
- Her glance wandered from his face away toward the Gulf, whose sonorous murmur reached her like a loving but imperative entreaty.Chopin, Kate -- The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
- Mighty and sonorous was the music above our heads as the winds of the night stirred the great boughs tossing athwart the starlit sky.Montgomery, Lucy Maud -- The Golden Road
sonorous = full and deep sounding
sonorous = full and deep sounding
sonorous = full and deep sounding
sonorous = full and deep sounding
sonorous = full and deep sounding
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