Example sentences for: mellifluous

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

  • A link on the page (look near the top left of the page or click here for today's audio edition) will bring you Scott Shuger's daily national newspaper summary (read aloud by a voice far more mellifluous than Scott's own).

  • In the first category were babelard or babillard for babbler; lubbard for big, stupid lout (from which came landlubber); caynard lazy dog (ultimately from the Italian cagna bitch); losard rake or profligate (from Old English losel one who is lost to perdition); and the mellifluous but contumelious musard , whose sin was day-dreaming.

  • The Weekly Standard 's Philip Terzian on Walter Cronkite's memoirs: "Anyone tempted to romanticize the American people should be reminded that for nearly twenty years, 'the most trusted man in America' was a TV news reader with a mustache and mellifluous baritone named Walter Cronkite."

  • A.D.) are replete with concatenations of voces magicae, some with up to a hundred letters, such as the more mellifluous: melibou melibau melibaubau, touchar souchar, nennana sennana, samousoum souma soume soumeia meisouat srouat.


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