Example Sentences

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As she put it Saturday night in a sonorously sung “Both Sides Now,” “Something’s lost but something’s gained in living every day.”

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2023

Perhaps the Spanish explorers’ fondness for sonorously rolling names kept them off the map.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2022

On one of their first albums, she sings a solo cover of “Unchained Melody” and it is hauntingly, even sonorously heartbreaking.

From Washington Post • Nov. 26, 2018

"Broadside ballads" would be sonorously bellowed on street corners, keeping folk abreast of what was going on in the region.

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2016

“I baptize thee in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost,” he pronounced sonorously as he shook the wet branch.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright