diapason
Example Sentences
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Feldman was fascinated by the organ's principal pipes that produce the thickly textured diapason sounds that are pure organ, as opposed to the myriad other pipes with, say, flute-like or brass-like characters.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2016
For 45 minutes he spoke, sometimes allowing his voice to swell in a sonorous diapason, sometimes letting it sink low as he leaned forward confidentially over the desk.
From Time Magazine Archive
For minutes, a diapason of booming whistles from the grey ships in the North River seemed to drown out everything.
From Time Magazine Archive
The mimeographed Bulletin was under no illusion that its cheerful chirping could drown out the harsh diapason from the rest of the press.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was apt in conversation to take his cue from his interlocutors rather than to force on them any topic, and he was apt also to speak in the same tone and same diapason.
From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
