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
• Yet her sonorous voice carries the weight of a hundred years of solitude.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2022
• The result is a sonorous ode to the story behind the most wonderful time of the year.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2020
• Critics described his voice as resonant, firm, sonorous and rock-solid.
  — Daniel J. Wakin, New York Times, 19 June 2018
• The work contains sonorous bouts of sorrow, but rage is its primary register.
  — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
• The pacing is erratic and the sonorous voice-over narration doesn’t help either.
  — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 13 May 2026
• 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
• 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
• David Pittsinger is a professorial Seneca, with a sonorous bass.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 18 June 2019
• 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
• The sound of his voice — calm, baritone, sonorous — shocks Marie, who immediately faints.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Aug. 2023
• Drake had spoken and marched in numerous rallies, reciting her poetry in her sonorous voice.
  — New York Times, 9 June 2021
• The warmly sonorous strings and firmly cohesive brasses gave it their all on Thursday.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2018
• Williams usually has a politician’s voice, personable and sonorous, but on this morning his words kept catching in his throat.
  — Josie Duffy Rice, Slate Magazine, 23 Mar. 2017
• 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
• Doing so rewards you with a sonorous sound from the staggered quad pipe exhaust, and a freight train-like acceleration.
  — Kyle Edward, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
• Sorrentino switched to Italian, and his remarks grew intricate and sonorous.
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
• 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 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
• And no composer before or since has equaled his understanding of the sonorous bass resonance of the piano.
  — Daniel Gelernter, National Review, 8 June 2019
• Matisse, sober in mind and appearance, with sonorous, albeit economic French.
  — Christopher C. Gorham september 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
• Moscone was the very personification of the wheeler-dealer politico, with a sonorous bass.
  — Dallas News, 28 June 2022
• The sonorous notes of a modern pipe organ were the soundtrack to my tour, enhancing the sense of reverence the cathedral inspires.
  — Tracey Teo, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Metals are particularly sonorous, as anyone who has been around toddlers (and pots and pans) can testify.
  — New Atlas, 2 May 2026
• 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
• With a quiet, slippery melody guided by Turner’s sonorous growl, listening to it now brings chills despite the track’s smooth veneer.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 24 May 2023
• Needless to say, all the worrying was for naught, as the baby Porsche’s lively handling and sonorous flat-six engines silenced any doubters.
  — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 17 Nov. 2021
• Synthetic recordings drown out some of the engine's sonorous notes, and the exhaust is a bit quiet, which further separates car from driver.
  — Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 28 July 2022