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Meanings of mellisonant in English

Pleasing to the ear.

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Examples for "sweet"
Examples for "sweet"
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I'll try something different this morning, she thought: sweet grass and chamomile.
The Valley of Horses
2
Watson, do you know this lady? said a sweet, concerned female voice.
Rakes and radishes
3
She was sweet and simple and beautiful and blank as clear water.
A reliable wife
4
Naturally companies that make sweet products, including Hershey's and Coca-Cola, oppose this.
The Guardian
5
The most common type is clear and very mild-evena bit sweet.
The cook's illustrated how-to-cook library
1
Holly's words were so honeyed that they could have charmed a bear.
Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex
2
What light slanted through the window gave the room a honeyed tinge.
Serena
3
The man Shorty was speaking, and in a tone of honeyed conciliation.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
4
As I finished the last bit of crust, I smelled honeyed almonds.
The Wise Man’s Fear
5
Manette, foreseeing a disturbance, hastened to interpose, in her hypocritical, honeyed voice:
A Woodland Queen ('Reine des Bois') — Volume 1
1
Colina called him in dulcet tones, and held out an inviting hand.
The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
2
Prince Sovrani listened to the dulcet young voice with a strange emotion.
The Master-Christian
3
Indeed, a chain of dulcet strains seems to rise from the past.
Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies
4
I heard Macgillivray's voice, and it was not pitched in dulcet tones.
Mr. Standfast
5
His research was interrupted by a dulcet tone emanating from within the room.
The unincorporated man
1
In his case the words were usually thoughtful, well rounded and mellifluous.
The Irish Times
2
His voice, normally so mellifluous and controlled, cracked on the last word.
Arthas: rise of the lich king
3
He extended his hand, his English refined, mellifluous under his Swiss intonation.
The bourne identity
4
How could a voice so mellifluous carry such an intimation of catastrophe?
The Neutronium Alchemist
5
Everything she said rolled off her tongue in a soft mellifluous melody.
My horizontal life: a collection of one-night stands