mellifluent

Example Sentences

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“It was then a sump of aged men with liver spots, claws, and bourbon breath, who strode the chamber with reptilian gait and hailed one another with mellifluent courtesies.”

From Los Angeles Times

Directed by the comedian Mike Myers, this clubby documentary lauds the swellness and shrewdness of the talent manager Shep Gordon with the help of celebrities and the sunnily mellifluent subject himself.

From New York Times

At the present moment I can see you by my side, not capricious and out of humour, but gentle, affectionate, with that mellifluent kindness of which my Josephine is the sole proprietor.

From Project Gutenberg

Jovial Neptune Doumergue promised, last week, in a mellifluent oration that France will never loose her sea dogs in a war of conquest, will employ them solely as sea watch dogs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jesus is represented only by a deep, mellifluent voice, speaking parables in Biblical language.

From Time Magazine Archive