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Meanings of mellisonant in English

Pleasing to the ear.

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        Examples for "sweet"
        Examples for "sweet"
        1
        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