euphony

Example Sentences

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Finally, our group out here settled on Federalist Society as a name, which I suppose makes up in euphony what it lacks in accuracy.

From Salon • Dec. 2, 2021

The euphony in Obama’s campaign speeches, alternately fiery and soothing, changed to the melody of authority once he was in office.

From The Guardian • May 3, 2020

Listen to how the music unfolds: passages that slyly verge on atonality are linked like gossamer chains to hinge moments of pure tonal euphony, each expressing a clear dramatic point.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 28, 2019

He was richly alive to cadence and euphony.

From Economist • May 23, 2018

It possesses two grammatical genders, not masculine and feminine, but the human and the non-human; the adjective agrees in assonance with its noun, and euphony plays a great part in verbal and nominal inflections.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various