Example sentences for: sonorous

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

  • Aside from the linguistic challenges they pose, these ancient artificial, noncewords, with their sonorous, cantillating, rhyming, and rhythmical variations on phonetic themes, have intrigued and fascinated scholars who try to divine the rules governing their formation.

  • Going a step further, linguists have noted the similarity between the sonorous sound manipulations of such artificial words in magical incantations and children's game songs.

  • He would entertain the Post newsroom (where I worked) with his stories--his rough, sonorous voice; his slow drawl; his erudition and love affair with the language; his cigarette ash building up until it rolled, unnoticed by him, down the front of his shirt.


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