How to Use sonorous in a Sentence

sonorous

adjective

• He has a deep, sonorous voice.
• Here's to hoping for many more sonorous clanks in the future.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 22 July 2019
• His speech that night was a sonorous movement pep talk.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2018
• The result is a sonorous ode to the story behind the most wonderful time of the year.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2020
• Yet her sonorous voice carries the weight of a hundred years of solitude.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2022
• And near the end, Beatrice and Lucia’s vocal lines quiver and swoop like birds around a low, sober, sonorous chorale.
  — New York Times, 12 July 2022
• His writer, Jon Favreau, wrote sonorous lines for Obama.
  — TheWeek, 17 May 2020
• New Orleans, and her pursed crimson lips buzzed a sonorous tone into the speakeasy jazz number.
  — Mandy McLaren, The Courier-Journal, 8 June 2022
• Across 92 tracks, the sonorous amphibians strike up all manner of din: chirps, croaks, barks, chirrups, beeps, honks, buzzes, squawks, blips, whines, and grunts.
  — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 6 Nov. 2023
• The same one who stands a full foot shorter than the 6-foot-4 Neeson, and whose lilting voice quivers against the head winds of his sonorous baritone.
  — Washington Post, 25 June 2021
• The entire church was filled with the deep, sonorous baritone of an older, barrel-chested man.
  — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018
• With his plaintive gaze and sonorous voice, the actor brings a wonderful blend of humor and empathy to the role.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2022
• For those shopping without limits, the GTS 4.0 model—with its powerful and sonorous flat-six—is the Boxster to choose.
  — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 22 Nov. 2022
• Where his folk recordings felt anguished and stormy, here the vocals are sonorous and slow, merging with mellow waves and pulses.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020
• David Pittsinger is a professorial Seneca, with a sonorous bass.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 18 June 2019
• His imperial presence, his passion for spreading the gospel of African dance and his sonorous voice were more than missed.
  — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 30 May 2017
• The Emperor was walking not very precisely, not at all his usual steps, and with the faint, sonorous jangling of spurs.
  — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, National Review, 14 Oct. 2021
• The sound of his voice — calm, baritone, sonorous — shocks Marie, who immediately faints.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Aug. 2023
• Full-orchestral fortes were sonorous, but never overblown.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 18 Dec. 2020
• Acclaimed cellist John Lutterman will explore the range of the cello, from dark and sonorous to bright and expressive.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Feb. 2020
• For much of his life, Archbishop Tutu was a spellbinding preacher, his voice by turns sonorous and high-pitched.
  — New York Times, 26 Dec. 2021
• This is one of the world’s great engines—silky-smooth, eager to rev, properly potent with its 479 ft lbs of torque and truly sonorous in its soundtrack.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 8 June 2022
• And Baird, with his sonorous voice and ability to melt into his characters, oozes world-weariness as the melancholy fool, Jaques.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2022
• The warmly sonorous strings and firmly cohesive brasses gave it their all on Thursday.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2018
• In her ninth decade, Jackson remains a formidable presence—slim, straight, steely-eyed, with a sonorous voice that could cut glass.
  — Adam Green, Vogue, 15 June 2023
• The sonorous voice and gravity-defying hair of night-club hypnotist Dr. Michael Dean.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2022
• Needless to say, all the worrying was for naught, as the baby Porsche’s lively handling and sonorous flat-six engines silenced any doubters.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 19 Dec. 2022
• The sonorous rumble of a sousaphone laid down the low end, while cymbals, hi-hats, snare drums and bass drum offered the dynamic beats that elevate dance-floor denizens like a drug.
  — Morena Duwe, Billboard, 11 Dec. 2019
• Weekly broadcasts brought to a vast audience his sonorous baritone that would rise to a passionate crescendo; according to one poll, some 16 million people heard him at least once a month.
  — Adam Hochschild, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
• Possessed of a sonorous performer's cadence that could switch registers from smarmy to silky as the sketch demanded, Parnell was the definition of the all-star utility player during his time on the show.
  — Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024