sonority

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The arresting analog engineering of the Royce Hall sessions are where you witness the marvelous Mehta Sound — where each sonority has a personality, even a kind of chutzpah.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2023

“This silvery, fluty, bell-like sonority that seemed to be everywhere and nowhere at once.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2020

Shorter’s tenor saxophone anchors the three disks with a surreal sonority, a wild cry that comes from the heart of sorrow.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 25, 2018

They are particularly appealing in the upper register, largely because they minimize falsetto, thus achieving what Mr. Paseltiner called “a trumpet-like” sonority.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2018

His rapid, vehement voice rang out in full sonority in the silence of the great rolling Down, and his thoughts seemed to move with more ease than usual in the high, cold air of autumn.

From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund