Example sentences for: euphony

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

  • It enjoys life not only as an interjection but also as a noun ("The movie's real duh of a raison d'être"-- Village Voice ) and an adjective ("That's so duh you've got to smile"-- Los Angeles Times ). Bummer , one 1960s word that really did get its start in the '60s drug culture, is also proving its hardiness, a testament both to the term's euphony and to the ubiquity of bummers in the world at large.

  • ' Ton is not the word for `tone': it is not even a standard Spanish word, being a nonceword in this expression, mainly for rhyme and euphony.

  • Think of the power of that peculiarly Italian euphony!

  • The problem is that the words selected— summer afternoon (Henry James), powwow, pulchritude, punctuate (Shirley Lord), Preposterous (Charles Krauthammer), delegate (Maxwell M. Raab)--often appeal because of personal association and not for euphony (unlike classics like murmur and smooth ).

  • When I was young at the bar I heard with delight an old lawyer, who could have played Dickens's Mr. Tulkinghorn, speak grandly of the court of nisi prius (pronouncing it NICEY PRY-US), an utterly obsolete Latinism for the simple trial court . Just as any speaker may, for the sake of euphony (or vanity) flourish an occasional eminence grise or mirabile dictu , may not a lawyer plume himself now and then with an ab initio or even a mutatis mutandis , not to “unite the priesthood’ but to savor his own sonority, as a bird sings also for itself?


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