canorous
Example Sentences
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A whisp of a canorous clarinet or a rumbling rattle is all it takes for a kind of instant transport to a far-off time and place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025
Some are graceful and smooth, however, and are canorous though never sonorous.
From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Morse Earle
Sometimes we skirted a cypress swamp and saw the shallow black water with blacker trees reflected upon its bosom, and heard the frogs' canorous quarrelings, and the stealthy rustlings of creatures of the dark.
From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Marie Conway Oemler
Have you a friend in the army, especially one who sings occasionally, or if he be not canorous, say a friend who likes to read songs and hear them sung by others?
From The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
Then there came a canorous snarl of bass, and then, abruptly, with resistless charm, and with full-bodied, satisfying amplitude of volume the opening movement of the overture of "Carmen."
From The Pit by Frank Norris
