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How to pronounce sonorous in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms heavy
Derivation sonority, sonorousness


a herald chosen for his sonorous voice.

Examples of sonorous

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His rhymes evoke Lil Wayne's manic croak transposed into a suave, sonorous purr.
From the washingtonpost.com
All you hear on American Recordings is Cash's guitar and his deep, sonorous voice.
From the time.com
The more the music built, the more sonorous and ringing the orchestra became.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Think of that sonorous, burnished voice, those proud, aristocratic features.
From the time.com
The poetic language while not being complex is very visual, expressive and sonorous.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Only Raymond Aceto's Hunding, sonorous but technically unsteady, fell below the curve.
From the sfgate.com
The strings, digging in and richly sonorous, sounded like a million bucks.
From the ocregister.com
Thomas's sonorous rumbles get a little more up-beat and the pace quickens.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Sometimes the tune is heartfelt and sonorous, other times booming at lightening speeds.
From the theepochtimes.com
More examples
  • Heavy: full and loud and deep; "heavy sounds"; "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice"
  • (sonorously) in a sonorous manner; "the congregation consisted chiefly of a few young folk, who snored sonorously"
  • (sonorousness) plangency: having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant
  • A sonority hierarchy or sonority scale is a ranking of speech sounds (or phones) by amplitude. For example, if you say the vowel [a], you will produce much louder sound than if you say the plosive [t]. ...
  • Capable of giving out a deep, resonant sound; Full of sound and rich, as in language or verse; Wordy or grandiloquent
  • A low voice that is deep, full or loud in sound