Example sentences for: cacophonous

How can you use “cacophonous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But the show does get cacophonous, sometimes to the point of making the discussion unintelligible.

  • One night, I tuned in and heard an extraordinarily cacophonous piece that sounded like souls groaning in hell alternating with dissonant organ music; as I could not believe what I was hearing, I continued to listen; I was tortured for about half an hour but persisted, as I wanted to hear the title in order to make certain that I would switch off if anyone ever threatened to play it again.

  • What better accompaniment to the cacophonous examples listed than blinkenlights: n. Front-panel diagnostic lights on a computer, esp. a (dinosaur).

  • Using only the simplest cinematic means, Boorman achieves what Martin Scorsese needed whip-pans and zoom lenses and a cacophonous sound mix to do at the climax of GoodFellas (1990): He gives you the jittery and suffocating sense of the universe closing in.

  • .. rouat , or the cacophonous: chuchbachuch bauachuch bakaxichuch bazabachuch bachaxichuch bazetophoth bainchoooch . (Psycholinguists like F. Trojan even trace relationships between word sounds and word meanings, the deep, dark vowels like o and u having an awesome, threatening, secretive nature on the one hand, and on the other the lighter ones like e and i often referring to the gentler, pleasanter things--whether in Indo-European or Chinese phonetics.)


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