stentorian

How To Use stentorian In A Sentence

• The window is half open, and the sounds of the street come up, 'baaing' and bellowing and squeaking, the roll of wheels, the tramp of feet, and, more distant, the shouting of an auctioneer in the market-place, whose stentorian tones come round the corner as he puts up rickcloths for sale. Hodge and His Masters
• Switching on his searchlight torch, he bellowed in a stentorian voice. THE BOOK LADY
• At that moment a stentorian call pealed above the dismantled camp, and there began a vast surge of the mass of Nakonkirhirinons toward the waiting canoes, a dragging of goods and chattels, a hurry of crying children, a scurrying of squaws. The Maid of the Whispering Hills
• The Narraboth, Sean Panikkar, acquitted himself beautifully, driven half-mad when Salome gets him to violate his commands, and singing well; Richard Berkeley-Steele made an ideally fatuous if half-inaudible Herod; and Doris Soffel was full of rage rather than camp as a stentorian Herodias. Washington National Opera unveils a lively 'Salome'
• He stood a moment silent, and then - ‘I denounce this God-defying murder’, he shouted; and his father, if he must have disclaimed the sentiment, might have owned the stentorian voice with which it was uttered.
• These two females did afterwards depone that Mr Willet in his consternation uttered but one word, and called that up the stairs in a stentorian voice, six distinct times. Barnaby Rudge
• It was a privilege to be in thrall to those stentorian tones, liberally laced with puckish humour, which delighted millions of cricket fans for decades, first on television and later on radio's immensely popular Test Match Special.
• The theme, an eight-bar structure of stentorian semibreve piano chords, receives six doggedly unvaried statements.
• ‘It's Superman’ became a catchphrase for two generations of listeners and his stentorian delivery was much mimicked.
• Like a performance artist, Keyes riled the crowd up, mixing animadversions on constitutional law with sudden, stentorian salvos against judges.