Explore Sonorous through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like heavy or full. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Sonorous in a sentence
Sonorous meaning
- Capable of giving out a deep, resonant sound.
- Full of sound and rich, as in language or verse.
- Wordy or grandiloquent.
Using Sonorous
- The main meaning on this page is: Capable of giving out a deep, resonant sound. | Full of sound and rich, as in language or verse. | Wordy or grandiloquent.
- Useful related words include: heavy, full.
- In the example corpus, sonorous often appears in combinations such as: sonorous and.
Context around Sonorous
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sonorous
- In this selection, "sonorous" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, direct, smooth, near, engines, heat and bong stand out and add context to how "sonorous" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a clear sonorous oriental chime and among the sonorous drone of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sonorous" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sonorous
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Sonorous and enchanting, her voice carried deep emotion while boasting an impressive range. (13 words)
Over the Classical period, the pieces became richer, more sonorous and more powerful. (13 words)
He’s masculinity incarnate, in all its confidence and anxieties — direct, sonorous and conversational even as the tragedy builds. (19 words)
These early days of August would, in a typical year, shout in near-sonorous heat waves the last hurrah of summer—a time for beach vacations, back-to-school shopping and barbecues in the shade (or whatever it is we did for fun in what seems like eons ago). (49 words)
A xylophone made from stone might seem an unusual musical instrument, more likely to produce a disappointing clunk than a sonorous bong, but certain stones can make beautiful notes if the microscopic structure of the rock is right. (38 words)
Accent cymbals include chime cymbals, small-bell domed cymbals or those with a clear sonorous/oriental chime to them like specialized crash and splash cymbals and many china types too, particularly the smaller and/or thinner ones. (37 words)
Example sentences (10)
He’s masculinity incarnate, in all its confidence and anxieties — direct, sonorous and conversational even as the tragedy builds.
The engine is not exactly silky, or nice to listen to, but Chevy seems to have come to the correct conclusion that people are not buying crossovers for their smooth, sonorous engines.
These early days of August would, in a typical year, shout in near-sonorous heat waves the last hurrah of summer—a time for beach vacations, back-to-school shopping and barbecues in the shade (or whatever it is we did for fun in what seems like eons ago).
A xylophone made from stone might seem an unusual musical instrument, more likely to produce a disappointing clunk than a sonorous bong, but certain stones can make beautiful notes if the microscopic structure of the rock is right.
Among the sonorous drone of 193 addresses, either restating the obvious or repeating by rote the contemporary global mantra of climate change, the Palestinians, and endemic poverty, some chiefs of state reached rhetorical pinnacles.
Despite the RPG elements, you can’t customize Reid; you’re stuck with his lumberjack beard and sonorous voice for the duration of the game.
Sonorous and enchanting, her voice carried deep emotion while boasting an impressive range.
The contrasting sonorous pathos of raga Darbari underlined the Soz of the next ghazal by Amir Hanfi, “Main hawa hoon kahan vatan mera.
Accent cymbals include chime cymbals, small-bell domed cymbals or those with a clear sonorous/oriental chime to them like specialized crash and splash cymbals and many china types too, particularly the smaller and/or thinner ones.
Over the Classical period, the pieces became richer, more sonorous and more powerful.
Common combinations with sonorous
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: