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Meanings of sonority in English
Catalan
ressonància Having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant.
Synonyms
Examples for "ringing"
Examples for "ringing"
1
Bells were ringing in the distance in honor of the royal birthday.
2
Every telephone in every house in Wayward Pines is ringing right now.
3
Now the cries of clear strong voices came ringing over the fields.
4
When I let myself into the house I hear the phone ringing.
5
The ringing of the church bells could be heard in the hall.
1
Results: Magnetic resonance imaging studies were available for review in 949 cases.
2
This is especially true if the subject continues to have a resonance.
3
Fiona heard the low resonance of Ian's answer but not his words.
4
The group's message has particular resonance in West Bengal, which borders Bangladesh.
5
Magnetic resonance changes were used to calculate intratumoral doxorubicin concentrations throughout treatment.
1
Is the cultural vibrancy of the city being lost as a result?
2
Yet she'd felt the vibrancy of the desert when they'd stopped yesterday.
3
In return, people have brought richness, vibrancy and skills to those communities.
4
It's still one of the best leading indicators of an economy's vibrancy.
5
The day will find its own vibrancy in its own sweet time.
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The thunder was re-echoed among the rocks with a grand sonorousness.
2
The words uttered by the little provincial had an indefinable sonorousness.
3
Don't you perceive the sonorousness of these old dead Latin phrases?
4
When heard near by, the sonorousness of the sound reminds one of the cello.
5
How golden her voice sounded with its seductive, sun-like sonorousness!
1
This vision of a flooded world possesses a pared-down, Beckettian plangency.
2
She was short of breath, so that her voice palpitated with a touching plangency that shook the man's heart.
3
In addition to the plangency of his chord combinations, as such, his polyphonic skill is responsible for much of the solidity of his fabric.
4
Her voice had a pleasant plangency, a quality of more yet to come and as if the wells of her vitality were far from drained.
5
In a moment he said, without quite succeeding in keeping the plangency out of his voice: "What am I supposed to do about it, then?"
1
The ampleness of that reverberance is almost isolated.
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.
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Their sweet and penetrating voices had an exquisite sonority in that profound silence.
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You can simply bask in the lovely tunes and the sonority of the words.
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By the 15th of October the voice of the patient had lost its sonority.
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She started giggling, a rubbery sonority muffled by her body.
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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.
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Put simply, Tóibín's novel contains an awful lot of its author and his resonant sonority.
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He replied to Quaisoir with a delicacy as feigned as the sonority he'd affected seconds before.
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He said that he liked the Erard but he really preferred the Pleyel with its veiled sonority.
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When she spoke, the voice was deep and plain, a laundry mistress's voice, no sonority to it.
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