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Recent Examples of sonorous Every day after school, roughly 50 Bryant Webster students gather to rehearse sonorous tunes first written decades ago. Esteban L. Hernandez, Axios, 19 Sep. 2024 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 His sonorous, shiver-inducing baritone gave life to the dramatic complexity of Darth Vader, in the original Star Wars trilogy and several offshoots. Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 10 Sep. 2024 James Earl Jones, a commanding presence onscreen who nonetheless gained greater fame off-camera as the sonorous voice of Star Wars villain Darth Vader and Mufasa, the benevolent leader in The Lion King, died Monday. Jacqueline Mansky, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for sonorous 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sonorous
Adjective
  • Roger Goodell Taylor Swift breaks his record for loudest boos received at a Super Bowl. 13.
    Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 10 Feb. 2025
  • The controversy grew loud enough that Mackie took to Instagram a few days later to clarify his remarks.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • But with a will Strike all your harps and set them ringing; On hill and heath Let every breath Throw all its power into singing!
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2024
  • His ringing, carefree laugh mixed with soaring rhetoric about democracy, working families and hope.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • The genteel tranquility of his $10 million estate is shattered by the deafening scream of jet traffic with the regularity of commercial airline schedules.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Zoom out: While these protests may be vociferous, there's an equally deafening volume of grievances the SEC sees.
    Hope King, Axios, 28 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • The painting in question, titled Elimar (1889), depicts a fisherman with a round hat on his head and a pipe in his mouth.
    Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 31 Jan. 2025
  • In addition to Sunday’s win, the Chiefs defeated Buffalo 27-24 in last season’s AFC Divisional round playoff game.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The tees’ durability and vibrant colors stand out, while the consistent teeing height of Martini’s popular step-up model is a key selling point.
    Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The city hopes to lay the groundwork for a vibrant, accessible, and marketable facility that will serve the community for years to come.
    Julia Fomby, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The outpouring of reaction to the video demonstrates how emotionally resonant animal behavior can be.
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Led by a performance of transfixing grace and subtlety from Ben Whishaw in the title role, the diaristic film spins compacted time into something free-flowing, expansive, illuminating and emotionally resonant, all of it achieved with elegant restraint.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Written soon after the death of Mahler’s daughter and soon before his own, the symphony is a sombre, reflective, and reverberant adieu, brewing such melancholy that Leonard Bernstein theorized that Mahler was foretelling his own end.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Interim head coach Antonio Pierce benches Garoppolo in favor of rookie Aidan O’Connell, setting up another reverberant comment from Adams.
    David Lombardi, The Athletic, 16 July 2024
Adjective
  • His motivation could be to control something very powerful or just to slow down OpenAI in order to allow XAI to improve—seize the new market opportunity—or to break up OpenAI and render his competition obsolete.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2025
  • In the costume drama based on Guy de Maupassant’s 1885 novel of the same name, Pattinson portrayed an ambitious and amoral social striver, a former soldier who seeks to improve his fortunes by seducing the wives (played by Christina Ricci, Uma Thurman and Kristin Scott Thomas) of powerful men.
    Kevin Cassidy, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2025

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“Sonorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sonorous. Accessed 18 Feb. 2025.

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