sonorous
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If the Dodgers win, they move on to the NL Championship Series, where Kershaw could get a chance to end his career on a more sonorous note than the clunker he played Wednesday.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025
Low sonorous chanting resonated through the hall as ritual smoke lingered in the still, humid air.
From BBC • Jul. 2, 2025
It’s startlingly similar to what happens when he stands on opera stages — all 6 feet, 5 inches of him — and bellows in his sonorous bass-baritone; you are irrevocably drawn in.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2024
His once sonorous voice, capable of issuing booming blasts of indignation, has grown somewhat quieter and more phlegmy.
From Salon • Sep. 18, 2023
In a thick drawl, more ponderous than his low mass responses, the priest spoke the Latin phrases with a sonorous, dramatic discernment.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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