euphony

Example Sentences

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Finally, our group out here settled on Federalist Society as a name, which I suppose makes up in euphony what it lacks in accuracy.

From Salon • Dec. 2, 2021

The euphony in Obama’s campaign speeches, alternately fiery and soothing, changed to the melody of authority once he was in office.

From The Guardian • May 3, 2020

Listen to how the music unfolds: passages that slyly verge on atonality are linked like gossamer chains to hinge moments of pure tonal euphony, each expressing a clear dramatic point.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 28, 2019

He was richly alive to cadence and euphony.

From Economist • May 23, 2018

O is simply the nominative of an article which very frequently is placed before a proper name to give it emphasis, or even for the sake of euphony.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von