How to Use mellifluous in a Sentence

mellifluous

adjective

• And Hollis’s troupe, in which God is played by a mellifluous blowhard named Larking, has good reason to doubt him.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
• Soft trade winds blew through the open-air nave, and worshippers sang hymns in mellifluous Hawaiian.
  — Annie Rogers, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2021
• His countertenor voice and phrasing—both mellifluous and frayed around the edges—convey anguish and hope.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 12 Feb. 2022
• Overnight in one of 22 stand-alone cabins, with nothing but mellifluous river flow as the soundtrack.
  — Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 2 Oct. 2023
• Perhaps the vocal contrast between the mellifluous Lowe, 73, and the hit-and-miss Costello, 68, would have been too pronounced?
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2022
• Even the quad exhaust tips out back seem cut from the same metallic cloth, though the soundtrack blasted through the pipes is more mellifluous in tone than the G63's machine-gun rat-a-tat-tat.
  — Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 17 Feb. 2022
• Film idol looks and a mellifluous baritone certainly are a part of his appeal.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2018
• Jeff Goldblum's mellifluous tones are coming soon to a podcast near you.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 28 Apr. 2021
• Like prying open a crypt, even the narrowest crack of the lid released a sharp, mellifluous tang, potent enough to make your eyes water.
  — Jennifer Hope Choi, Bon Appétit, 19 Aug. 2020
• Over the next several years, Albrecht’s mellifluous word seemed to tap into a kind of angst about life on a warming planet.
  — Madeline Ostrander, The Atlantic, 23 July 2022
• Despite the mellifluous tones of Morgan Freeman as the narrator in the film, the script is so badly written it’s a flagrant waste of his voice talents.
  — Michael Venables, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2011
• The group includes the warblers, canaries, larks and other mellifluous singers but also the strident (to human ears, anyway) crows and their kin.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2019
• Crucial Star and Kim Na Young’s gentle duet is a mellifluous take on the neither here nor there feelings of autumn, and equating romance with the dead leaves of the season.
  — Tamar Herman, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2017
• Looney speaks in a mellifluous Texas drawl, wears bolo ties and cowboy boots and pilots his own plane to court hearings outside Houston.
  — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2022
• Even those that still see regular use may change over the decades, as time and vibration slowly alter their mellifluous tone.
  — Chuck Squatriglia, Popular Science, 10 Jan. 2020
• Cassettes passed through teenage hands like mellifluous bearer bonds.
  — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2021
• So what separates a professional voice artist from a civilian who sounds mellifluous on the phone?
  — Gavin Edwards, charlotteobserver, 27 Apr. 2017
• It must be spoken and performed, his mellifluous voice lulling among the wonders in order to underline, more starkly, the horrors.
  — The Economist, 15 July 2017
• Stories of one magnanimous soul’s power to sow seeds of light and grace that germinate and create a mellifluous echo across time and place.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Oct. 2023
• Rainey and Hoops showcased their warm, mellifluous tones, expertly shaped songful melodies and nailed the rapid passagework.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 11 Nov. 2020
• The path is more difficult for Martin, whose mellifluous tones were heard on Red Sox radio and then television broadcasts for 32 years.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Dec. 2022
• Blystone had an unrivaled talent for cutting to the truth in poignant prose that his mellifluous tones could lift and lay over his audience with the lightest of touches.
  — Nic Robertson, CNN, 18 Apr. 2018
• The unforced performances of the young stars, the mellifluous flow of the Creole dialogue, and the verdant charm of the unique locale make this a pleasantly worthwhile diversion.
  — OregonLive.com, 1 Nov. 2017
• The stories were later re-edited to delete such antediluvian tropes, but in the process they were made shorter as well; much of Wirt Benson’s mellifluous prose tumbled to the cutting-room floor.
  — Michael Callahan, Marie Claire, 9 Oct. 2019
• K-pop singer Taeyeon is ringing in the holiday season with a mellifluous new EP dedicated to all things Christmas.
  — Tamar Herman, Billboard, 13 Dec. 2017
• Although rumpled and scruffy, Mr. Williams had a plummy accent and a mellifluous speaking voice that served him well in a surprisingly busy film career.
  — William Grimes, New York Times, 5 July 2017
• The mellifluous-voiced actor’s more than 70-year career spanned theater, film, radio and television.
  — Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2021
• His songs are as peppy and mellifluous as his persona is honeyed and nonthreatening.
  — Robyn Bahr, Billboard, 23 Nov. 2020
• Last Friday afternoon, Moore played a selection that prompted staff members to step out of their offices toward the mellifluous sounds.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Apr. 2021
• As Papadakis glided across the ice to the mellifluous sounds of Ed Sheeran, the neck clasp of her ice dancing outfit came undone, forcing her to sort of try to hold onto it to lessen the amount of flashing-the-Olympics-audience happening on the ice.
  — Kelly Conaboy, The Cut, 19 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024