canorous
Example Sentences
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A whisp of a canorous clarinet or a rumbling rattle is all it takes for a kind of instant transport to a far-off time and place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025
There is a more canorous and horn-like quality to the crowing of Gildersleeve's rooster, and his hens chant cheerily as they kick the litter about.
From Back Home by Eugene Wood
There had been reading and praising of odes and sonnets the whole blessed afternoon, and now he cried out to the complaisant, canorous company, "Behold Arcadia revived in us!"
From Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions by William Dean Howells
But no English poet can write English poetry except in English,—that is, in that compound of Teutonic and Romanic which derives its heartiness and strength from the one and its canorous elegance from the other.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 by Various
Have you a friend in the army, especially one who sings occasionally, or if he be not canorous, say a friend who likes to read songs and hear them sung by others?
From The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
