Sample Sentences for
harmonious
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harmonious as in:  live together harmoniously

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    Please resolve your disagreement harmoniously.
    harmoniously = in a friendly and peaceful manner
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    Nothing as he was growing up at home, nothing at Devon, nothing even about the war had broken his harmonious and natural unity.  (source)
    harmonious = co-existence with surroundings in a peaceful and pleasing manner
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    In the Bottling Room all was harmonious bustle and ordered activity.  (source)
    harmonious = well-coordinated
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    For a few years, the founders worked in harmony together, seeking out youngsters who showed signs of magic and bringing them to the castle to be educated.  (source)
    harmony = co-existing in a pleasing way
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    In irregular small groups, disintegrating, coalescing, striking just the right note of disharmony, disorder in the big room, which Irene had furnished with a sparingness that was almost chaste, moved the guests with that slight familiarity that makes a party a success.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disharmony reverses the meaning of harmony. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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    Sixteen is the key and crucial and natural age for a human being to be, and people of all other ages are ranged in an orderly manner ahead of and behind you as a harmonious setting for the sixteen-year-olds of this world.  (source)
    harmonious = arranged in a pleasing way
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    The crying and clashing of the harmonies were an obsession in the melted bowels.  (source)
    harmonies = well-coordinated sounds
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    When I watch my family move in harmony; when we go to dinner parties and everyone cleans together afterward without having to be asked; when I see Caleb help strangers carry their groceries, I fall in love with this life all over again.  (source)
    harmony = pleasing coexistence
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    But then the girls settled into a sweet disharmony that brought tears to Theresa's eyes.†  (source)
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    Again, again–and it was not the ear that heard the pulsing rhythm, it was the midriff; the wail and clang of those recurring harmonies haunted, not the mind, but the yearning bowels of compassion.  (source)
    harmonies = well-coordinated sounds
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    When he came to the tale of the great mother, the queen of all, who first learned to keep and teach the new queen instead of killing her or driving her away, then he lingered, telling how many times she had finally to destroy the child of her body, the new self that was not herself, until she bore one who understood her quest for harmony.  (source)
    harmony = peaceful coexistence
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    Never once did I witness any disharmony between one of my uncles and the earth and work of the valley.†  (source)
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    Harmony was the soul of our companionship, and the diversity and contrast that subsisted in our characters drew us nearer together.  (source)
    Harmony = pleasing coexistence
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harmonious as in:  soothing, harmonious music

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The changes created a more harmonious melody.
harmonious = pleasing
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    The band's practice sessions don't sound very harmonious.
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    She probably imagined that she was thinking about the Aids and their missionary box and the new carpet for the vestry room, but under these reflections was a harmonious consciousness of red fields smoking into pale-purply mists in the declining sun, of long, sharp-pointed fir shadows falling over the meadow beyond the brook, of still, crimson-budded maples around a mirrorlike wood pool, of a wakening in the world and a stir of hidden pulses under the gray sod.  (source)
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    As the notes overlap, they compliment one another, forming a lovely, unearthly harmony.  (source)
    harmony = pleasing music (through the combination of different notes)
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    They spent up or held on to their feelings in harmonious ways.†  (source)
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    It was his favorite, with its powerful, deep harmonies—he was a little sorry to be missing it.  (source)
    harmonies = of music: pleasing (through the combination of different notes)
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    The voices droned harmoniously.†  (source)
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    The furniture in this room is no worse than inharmonious, however, for we had to bring it all from downstairs.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inharmonious means not and reverses the meaning of harmonious. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    You would have to hear it yourself to believe the perfect pitch, the harmony parts, how the volume rolled up and down.  (source)
    harmony = pleasing combination of sounds
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    All thy request for Man, accepted Son, Obtain; all thy request was my decree: But, longer in that Paradise to dwell, The law I gave to Nature him forbids: Those pure immortal elements, that know, No gross, no unharmonious mixture foul, Eject him, tainted now; and purge him off, As a distemper, gross, to air as gross, And mortal food; as may dispose him best For dissolution wrought by sin, that first Distempered all things, and of incorrupt Corrupted.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unharmonious means not and reverses the meaning of harmonious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    As I struck the wires with my other hand, I produced my first harmonious sounds, and soon my own music!†  (source)
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    I heard voices, among them my own, chanting harmonies in an ancient hall.  (source)
    harmonies = pleasing music
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    We lived very harmoniously, and she was always pleased with me.†  (source)
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    This second Eumaeus strode hastily down the forest glade, driving before him, with the assistance of Fangs, the whole herd of his inharmonious charge.†  (source)
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