Example Sentences

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For the Cavaliers, these were jarring, unmelodious sentiments.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2016

That’s why, while the studios picked the stars, he chose the lived-in faces and unmelodious voices that define his work as much as the mesas of his westerns and the towering figure of John Wayne.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2011

He got there, in the past four months, singing unmelodious songs in a plain, unemotional, unmusical voice.

From Time Magazine Archive

Far into the night the House of Representatives shook with spirited, if unmelodious, yodels of Aloha Oe and the Whiffenpoof Song.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a rough and unmelodious tongue, a string of rattling, guttural noises, and there seemed to be two speakers, one with a slightly lower, slower voice than the other.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling