How To Use Mellifluous In A Sentence
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Young listeners had forgotten that music could be mellifluous and still have depth.
Times, Sunday Times
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It combines - appropriately in four letters - the notion of ripping, rooting, offing and torting in mellifluous onomatopoeia.
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His voice was mellifluous and comforting.
Times, Sunday Times
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He doesn't so much speak to you as he lulls you in lilting, mellifluous tones.
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Once I heard her mellifluous voice softly humming to the radio, I sighed a breath of relief.
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From Ontario, Kiran Ahluwalia brings her Punjabi folk songs, and a mellifluous voice that will wrap her audience in its exotic charms.
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Then there were words which were beautiful to hear, which had a rich sound -- words like "mellifluous" and "brocade" and "Cleopatra.
Missy
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It surged through the mellifluous, Mozart-inflected string deluges of Tchaikovsky's "Iolanta," then picked along Stravinsky's cubist angularities, where flashes of stridency were momentarily backlit by lyricism.
A Shining Study in Vision
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In the hands of a friendly receiver this car became a boon to the capitol contingent; its observation platform served as a shifting rostrum from which a deep-chested executive or a mellifluous Hawk often addressed admiring crowds at way stations, and its dining saloon was the moving scene of many little relaxative feasts, at which _Veuve Cliquot_ flowed freely, priceless cigars were burned, and the members of the organization unbent, each after his kind.
The Grafters
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I was particularly taken with the mellifluous sounds of the ‘authentic’ clarinets.
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Just as there is more to the songs' lyrics than that, so there is more to their sound than mellifluous strumming.
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His mellifluous deep belly laugh occupies the same low register as his bass and my mind wanders back to the bottles rattling and chinking behind the bar during his sporadic solos the night before.
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Senator John McCain, who has not known as a mellifluous orator, is already playing the political game of lowering expectations for his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis next month – particularly since Senator Barack Obama will deliver his speech before the Democrats at the Denver Broncos’ football stadium.
McCain on His Convention Speech - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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As the syllables of Apatow's name sift through her mellifluous vocal chords, my pinball brain starts to tilt: You, Catherine Deneuve, are a Judd Apatow fan?
Canada.com Top Stories
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SOCRATES: And if Adrastus the mellifluous or Pericles heard of these wonderful arts, brachylogies and eikonologies and all the hard names which we have been endeavouring to draw into the light of day, what would they say?
Phaedrus
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Staring into space, each concentrated on the soft sounds of Mari's mellifluous voice.
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I grew up around people who had wonderful, mellifluous voices.
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These elements were even more evocatively combined in the especially atmospheric penultimate song, ‘After a hundred years’, where the mellifluous voice was enveloped by the piano's sustained octaves and fifths and string pizzicati.
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Anyway, if you yearn on your computer to hear this mellifluous tongue, check our Radia na Gaeltacht, which, when Irish is not being spoken, has some of the coolest and hippest music, outshining any college or ‘progressive’ radio station, check out:
Ireland’s Language Remains on Life Support - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
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In Italian what name could sound more mellifluous than Felice?
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The voice on the Route-8 bus pronounces the names of each bus stop in perfect, mellifluous native Hawaiian: "Kuhio and Lili'uokalani," the recording says as the bus approaches a stop on the way to Waikiki Beach.
How to Pronounce Lili'uokalani? Ask Marvin Nogelmeier
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Pahi Pahi Balaganapathe" in Hamsadhwani raga and rupaka tala, which followed the Sri raga varna, was preceded by a brief but mellifluous sketch of the raga and supplemented with kalpana swaras.
The Hindu - Front Page
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The reason why I had Larry sing was not for his mellifluous performance, but to demonstrate the difference in reactions between him andour happyvolunteer (“Country Road” by John Denver – this really was a love fest).
John Brown – the author’s official site » 2010 » February
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Then again, he did use the word "mellifluous" just for flare -- maybe saying, "amen" is just some literary device we don't understand yet ...
More on Sarah Palin, Moose Hunting, and Other Stuff
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The words to the song started, and I could hear Christina's mellifluous voice singing softly along with it.
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During my most psychotic moment, almost an out-of-body experience, I heard music -- a mellifluous strain originating from the clouds, so it seemed.
Robert David Jaffee: Why The World Is A Safer Place For People With Mental Illness
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It must be the most musical and mellifluous language in the world.
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Then again, he did use the word "mellifluous" just for flare -- maybe saying, "amen" is just some literary device we don't understand yet ...
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Rose wondered, listening to Yashi's soft, mellifluous voice soothing Jess, and feeling a pang of annoyance that she'd gone straight for him.
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While engine noise never gets out of hand and indeed sounds quite mellifluous, you do hear a surprising amount of noise from passing traffic.
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His mellifluous voice frequently erupts in rumbustious laughter.
Times, Sunday Times
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This larghetto in A flat is a trifle too ornamental for my taste, mellifluous and serene as it is.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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It is eclectic, melodic, and ranges from imitations of Gregorian chants to mellifluous romances.
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Finally, however, her mellifluous voice with its distinctive accent and timbre began captivating the hearts of audiences elsewhere, and she shot to fame.
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Despite age, the singer has a mellifluous voice.
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It's movie dialogue, to be sure - no one, especially the sort of low-life characters they tend to write, speaks with such mellifluous, bookish vocabulary.
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But I also wanted it known that this was a comical mystery, and since I think "minivan" is a funny word -- otherwise the proper title would be For Whom the SUV Rolls, which is a lot less mellifluous -- that was accomplished, too.
Titled Gentry
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The learned and ingenious John Schweighaeuser (a name facile to spell and mellifluous to pronounce) hath been pleased, in that _Appendix continens particulam doctrinae de mente humana_, which closeth the volume of his
Paul Clifford — Volume 02
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The learned and ingenious John Schweighaeuser (a name facile to spell and mellifluous to pronounce) hath been pleased, in that Appendix continens particulam doctrinae de mente humana, which closeth the volume of his "Opuscula Academica," to observe (we translate from memory) that,
Paul Clifford — Complete
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The leader of the LDK, the forever silk scarfed and mellifluous Dr. Ibrahim Rugova, compared himself openly and blushlessly to Vaclav Havel and the Kosovar struggle to the Velvet Revolution.
Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
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The waves crashed over and over, the sound mellifluous and almost lulling to my ear.
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His poem - for all the mellifluousness of its alexandrines - was a lacerating attack upon the proposition that "tout est bien."
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Then, there was an important-sounding fanfare, and a mellifluous announcer introduced the first Guest of Honour talk.
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Fair dos, Kaplan obviously had fun writing it, and some of his touches work well: 'Under this Adam Impulse people have exerted themselves to come up with names for very large numbers, such as primo-vigesimo-centillion for 10366, and the mellifluous milli-millillion for 103,000,003.'
The Nothing that Is: A Natural History of Zero
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Her physical energy and humour are palpable, her voice a mellifluous tool with which she weaves tale upon tale, until one loses track of time in the hands of a master storyteller.
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“The Shah of Persia,” a mellifluous voice announced, “contemplates an increment of his hareem.”
At Swim, Two Boys
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Venus had what society columnists and besotted male journalists referred to as a mane of cascading auburn hair and her intellectual pedigree came directly from the Sorbonne, but she was Italian, with an accent that only grew stronger and more mellifluous as the years went by.
Sugar Skull
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The sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey - tongued Shakespeare.
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The mellifluous voice of the tenor did indeed ‘comfort’ us in his first aria.
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Prince Vaji closed his eyes and allowed his immortal senses hear the mellifluous music, designed to ensnare the mind of its listener.
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Her voice was mellifluous and lilting and her soft brown eyes had a hint of mischief in them.
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The opening pair found him on top form, imperious, then mellifluous.
Times, Sunday Times
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We dozed off to the mellifluous sounds of nature.
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The polyglot orchestra backing her up plays world music from everywhere and nowhere that incorporates Middle Eastern clarinet, European glockenspiel and other mellifluous sounds in addition to Mexican mariachi guitar.
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The voice was rich, mellifluous and like an angel sent from heavens above.
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Yet that mellifluous voice, it emerged, was not his sole forte.
Times, Sunday Times
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The leader of the LDK, the forever silk scarfed and mellifluous Dr. Ibrahim Rugova, compared himself openly and blushlessly to Vaclav Havel and the Kosovar struggle to the Velvet Revolution.
Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
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But his mellifluous tones were marred by a sniper.
Times, Sunday Times
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Marian Evans with her long, weird, dreamy face; Lewes, with his big brow and keen thoughtful eyes; Browning, pale and spruce, his eye like a skipper's cocked-up at the weather; Peacock, with his round, mellifluous speech of the old Greeks; David Gray, great-eyed and beautiful, like Shelley’s ghost; Lord Houghton, with his warm worldly smile and easy-fitting enthusiasm.
The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
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I think his voice is noble, mellifluous, rich and with a good range of colours.
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Seek ye then, fair daughters, the possession of that inward grace, whose essence shall permeate and vitalize the affections, adorn the countenance, make mellifluous the voice, and impart a hallowed beauty even to your motions.
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Smokey Robinson coined the term "quiet storm" to describe a certain kind of mellifluous R&B back in the mid-70s, and the four-times-platinum Diamond Life, which won the BRIT Award for Best Album in 1985, and its attendant four singles, helped give that gently turbulent music a wide, even international audience.
BBC - Ouch
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Inside: the mellifluous cacophony of the gaming machines, the tintinnabulations of the bells.
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I was pleased to see the word "mellifluous" in today's post, especially as your use of it was so apt.
Public Servitude: Making the Streets Safe for Absurdity
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But I was surprised to discover that in person he is charming and attentive, with a gentle smile and mellifluous voice.
Times, Sunday Times
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The nightingale is universally admitted to be the most enchanting of warblers; and many might be tempted to encage the mellifluous songster, but for the supposed difficulty of procuring proper food for it.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 569, October 6, 1832
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‘We will have refreshments and you shall tell me of your misadventure,’ Arvid said in a rich, mellifluous voice.
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If so, it makes a mellifluous phrase with "ludenic," but it seems a bit of a stretch.
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