annunciatory
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a word derived from
annunciate.
annunciateverb (used with object)to announce.
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a word derived from
annunciator.
annunciatornounan announcer.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Raymond makes his entrance with a coolly annunciatory melody, shadowed first by his bassist, Joe Martin, and then also by his pianist, Dan Tepfer.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2015
When the U.S. population shifted from rural to urban areas in 1920, there was no annunciatory thunderclap.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Political Self-Portrait, like its predecessors, is full of what seem like the antics of an annunciatory angel dancing on the top of a Harvard education.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The riotous preparations and annunciatory yells had died away to an intimate murmur of conversation.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie
At noon we sweep up to the post-house at Amsteg, with a jingle of bells, a crack of the whip, and an annunciatory shout from the driver.
From An American Girl Abroad by Adeline Trafton