[
UK
/stɛntˈɔːɹiən/
]
ADJECTIVE
- (used of the voice or sound) deep and resonant
How To Use stentorian In A Sentence
- The next thing I knew stentorian voices were to be heard outside, accompanied by high-powered torch beams piercing the shrubbery.
- He conformed to the social atmosphere of the time, and his standard English stentorian tones are probably the result.
- The theme, an eight-bar structure of stentorian semibreve piano chords, receives six doggedly unvaried statements.
- Saratoga with his shrill whistle and stentorian voice called his dauntless braves where the fight was thickest! History of the United States, Volume 2 (of 6)
- Standing up to unpardonable abuse, the stentorian voice still comes back fresh and bright for ballad renditions.
- Meanwhile, as the heavens darkened, the seas began to boil, and a voice tore through the clouds shouting, in deep, stentorian tones to one and all: "It was a Mistake!", campaign offices described themselves as "unperturbed". Founder Of Group Palin Courted Professed "Hatred For The American Government"; Cursed "Damn Flag"
- At length poor Mrs. Camford uttered a faint cry, which called Thisbe's attention back to the spot from whence it never should have strayed, -- her mistress 'cushioned chair, -- and she rushed in a sort of frenzy for the nerve-reviver, and applied it to the trembling lady's nostrils; whereupon that delicately-constituted specimen of the genus feminine uttered a stentorian shriek and flounced about the room like an irate porcupine, greatly to the terror of Alice, who had never witnessed such a scene before. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems
- Meanwhile, as the heavens darkened, the seas began to boil, and the voice tore through the clouds shouting, in deep, stentorian tones to one and all "It was a Mistake!", campaign offices described themselves as "unperturbed". The Palin Meltdown in Slo-Mo
- When I asked Zhao Yao whether his life was different now, he began in stentorian tones — “The impact of my involvement in the show has been profound” — and then started laughing and said, “I am taking the tone promoted by the show, enthusiastic and assertive!” Win in China!
- ‘Just so people understand, this is an ear candle,’ says Ames, in a stentorian deadpan that indeed suggests clogged ears.