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Meanings of sonority in English
Catalan
ressonància Having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant.
Usage of sonority in English
1
An inexplicable flapping of wings and cock-crows of singular sonority were heard.
2
The latter is dull and faded, without sonority, but soft and agreeable.
3
I yawned with prodigious sonority, and overturned a chair with my foot.
4
Here, in typical fashion, it's often startling in sonority and emphasis.
5
Their sweet and penetrating voices had an exquisite sonority in that profound silence.
6
You can simply bask in the lovely tunes and the sonority of the words.
7
By the 15th of October the voice of the patient had lost its sonority.
8
She started giggling, a rubbery sonority muffled by her body.
9
The four works recorded here show a sophisticated ear for instrumental technique and sonority.
10
And the carriage passed under it in darkness whilst the wheels rumbled with increased sonority.
11
Yes, yes, and the sonority of the instrument is double that of the old harpsichord.
12
It was an abode of darkness, enormous, without sonority.
13
Put simply, Tóibín's novel contains an awful lot of its author and his resonant sonority.
14
He replied to Quaisoir with a delicacy as feigned as the sonority he'd affected seconds before.
15
He said that he liked the Erard but he really preferred the Pleyel with its veiled sonority.
16
When she spoke, the voice was deep and plain, a laundry mistress's voice, no sonority to it.
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